Word: plastically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found that the hole was the size of a half-dollar-too big to close by simple stitching. It needed a blowout patch. With the heart still beating, but relatively free of blood so that he could see what he was doing, Dr. Cooley took a piece of plastic sponge and stitched it over the hole. Then, as he sewed the outer wall of the heart together, he let blood flow back through it. The blood shut-off had lasted 21 minutes, during which the severely damaged heart had not missed a beat. The whole operation took five hours. Said...
...apartment last week, Inventor Baschet proudly displayed the result of his nightwork: a monstrous collection of iron plates, steely spirals, glass rods in spiky rows, pneumatic cushions of red-and-white plastic, wires, bolts and screws, hammers, dampers. One instrument looked like a pair of inflated pontoons tangled in elephant grass and topped by the huge backbone of a fish. He tapped, squeezed, rubbed, twanged, and out of the contraptions came an amazing series of sounds-some of them hootingly sepulchral, some barkingly savage, some bewitching in the echoing tintinnabulations they set in motion. "Here you see the future...
...Though new materials such as plastics have moved into the packaging industry, manufacturers of glass bottles, cardboard boxes and other traditional containers have kept a major share of the market by bringing out improvements of their own. Riegel Paper Corp. has developed 600 kinds of packaging paper and cardboard, with all combinations of properties needed by manufacturers and shippers. Some traditional packaging materials have been joined with the newcomers. Bradley Container Corp., for example, is now manufacturing a can for Colgate-Palmolive's liquid detergent, Vel, with metal ends and flexible plastic sides. Thus. Bradley has combined the easy...
...long, 1,200 shields, 42 chariots, 600 other pieces of antique hardware. Dozens of himatia and chitons were run up by Spanish seamstresses from the ancient Greek models, and hundreds of wigs, beards and mustaches had to be found-along with such items as 50 scars and 36 plastic noses. The publicity department announced proudly that when the shooting stopped "there was not a single imitation precious stone [or] gold tassel left in Madrid...
...British novelists since Max Beerbohm seem to think is the native speech of proper Bostonians. He eats "Vit-Health" sandwich-spread that his mother sends him. He is courageous and dedicated, but his eager virtue turns into fumbling crime. His idealistic dabbling in Indo-Chinese politics-he furnishes a plastic bomb to a local faction-becomes real blood on his shoes. "I must get a shine before I see the Minister," says Pyle, after his bomb explodes, killing the wrong people...