Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever, but that was not what Dr. Alton Ochsner Jr. and his colleagues were interested in. They were more concerned about the inaudible signals they were receiving through the patient's draped left arm. Through one of the veins in that arm they had threaded a thin plastic tube (catheter) right into Muggsy's heart. The doctors were observing the pressure changes inside his heart while the great horn man was blowing, to see whether he could go on playing without putting too great a strain on his heart...
...Seixas, for vice president. Boston's clubs, all private, afford all manner of excellent courts, ranging from the green composition (at the Brookline Country Club) to cork (Longwood) to clay (Dedham Country and Polo Club). The best setup of all: the three composition courts, sheltered by a translucent, plastic Quonset hood, opened last fall at Harvard...
...states tried to depict themes representative of the Great Society. Texas trundled by proudly with a model of the LBJ Ranch, including a plastic Pedernales River, and a beagle with a tail that wagged. Minnesota's banner heralded the state as the SOURCE OF MAN POWER AND BRAINPOWER, while Hubert's old college band cut loose with The Minnesota Rouser. Education and recreation were the principal themes, Southern states, by and large, had the prettiest girls, and each state had some touch that was indubitably...
...Graceful. Credit for the change goes mostly to such improvements as the corneal lens, made of Plexiglas, which is lighter and simpler to fit than the old soleral variety, covers only the iris and the pupil rather than the whole eye. Researchers are adapting other materials, notably a hydrophilic plastic: invented by two Czech scientists, the new rubbery lens is so flexible it never irritates the eye, and is porous enough to be worn while asleep...
...costumes, traditionally Early Elizabethan, became instead Late Salvation Army; most of the wardrobe was scrounged from thrift shops. The king wore ski pants; his scepter was a three-foot-long egg beater. The queen's ornate crown was made of plastic spoons melted together. One tramp had a hockey player's metal groin protector sewed to this pants, another swigged wine from a rubber enema...