Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five-man Russian team, in particular, seemed interested in large-scale efforts to get rid of permafrost at mining or construction sites. Pointing out that massive blasting is too expensive, it offered plans for melting permafrost by solar heat trapped beneath huge sheets of plastic, and for electrifying the ground to move aside the water that makes permafrost so unreliable during partial thaws...
...first accomplishment of the music program was teaching all the campers to read music. Bayne and Goldberg did by use of plastic flutophones. After the campers mastered that instrument, they went on to trumpets, drums, cornets, and the piano. By the end of the summer they were good enough to present the score of "South Pacific" to an appreciative audience of 100 parents...
...screws driven through each end into the bone. The smaller bone was left to rejoin itself. Vascular surgeons joined the major blood vessels, not by stitching, which even the traditionally patient Chinese admit is difficult, but by turning one end up into a cuff over a tiny plastic ring and pulling the other end over the slight bulge...
Deceptively Simple. The argument began in 1958, when the University of Minnesota's aggressively pioneering professor of surgery, Owen H. Wangensteen, described a deceptively simple treatment for a notoriously stubborn illness. He and his colleagues get the patient to swallow a plastic tube with a balloon at the end. When the balloon is in the stomach, the doctors run frigid alcohol through it, at a temperature around -4° F. After an hour or so, the patient's stomach wall is presumably frozen. This freezing generally cuts down the stomach wall's ability to secrete hydrochloric acid...
...orbited earth, inviting meteoroids to hit the instruments that encrusted most of its surface. There were cylinders of thin sheet metal containing helium gas that escaped when they were punctured by a meteoroid. There were instruments that gave an electrical signal when sunlight showed through a puncture hole in plastic film. There were also sensitive microphones that registered 15,000 occasions when something hit them hard enough to make them vibrate...