Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...covey of twinjet, all-weather Flashlight fighter bombers with striking clear-plastic needle noses, roughly the equivalent...
...high Corsican hills, beclouded the cobalt air, and hosed down the white beaches so the sand would look dark and Norman. A sign went up warning local nudists to head for the interior; then 1,200 U.S. marines, dressed in Army uniforms, hit the beach, wading and crawling past plastic obstacles and plastic corpses...
Perfecting of methods to store blood made transfusions routine and cut the costs. Surgeons learned how to open and repair a blue baby's heart, use plastic replacement parts-and taught skilled techniques to enough other surgeons so that a doctor like Walter M. Boyd of Greeley, Colo., can say: "I regularly perform operations never heard of 25 years ago. At our little hospital we have four or five men who can handle just about anything that comes along...
...third eye, he explains, is the result of a bullet he caught while fighting in Spain ("Now there's a bit of plastic set into my poor skull"). Jackman and his men "might have commenced full of humanitarian sentimentality. And then, perhaps, demon ideology, with its imperatives and its inexorable dogmas, its sobersided caricature of religion, had swept them on to horrors." They are forever talking "of the sufferings of the working classes," but people in general are merely "that scum...
...isolator is a sausage-shaped, flexible, transparent plastic bubble, slightly inflated to about five feet in diameter with germ-free air and glued to the skin around the place where the surgeon will make his incision. Inside the bubble are surgical instruments, lying on a part of the plastic that is supported by stands next to the operating table. Half-jackets, with sleeves, gloves and a sort of helmet are molded into the sides of the bubble for the surgeons, letting them see and work inside while standing outside. The technique has been tested extensively in animals, is ready...