Word: portions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...done by famed Cardiovascular Surgeon Denton A. Cooley at Houston's St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital. Last week, with Schulman assisting, Cooley made a 51-in. incision under Ford's left armpit into the chest. The surgeon then separated Ford's ribs, and collapsed a portion of lung to expose a chain of nerves running along the backbone like a string of far-apart beads. About four inches of the nerves were removed, and the incision closed. The entire operation took barely 90 minutes...
There's the Captain's father, Sir Anthony Absolute, a gouty tyrant who would make his son marry a one-eyed witch if the marriage portion were large enough. There's Jack's plegmatic friend, Faulkland, devoted to the beautiful Julia but always devising schemes to test her love. And there's Mrs. Malaprop, possessing a strong pretension for elegant loquation but always misconcerting her vocabularly...
...Heller, landed his first Government job (in the Treasury) through Heller after World War II, now frequently discusses the economy with the CEA chief. Specializing at the moment in federal-state relations, Pechman this week will hand to the President a lengthy report that recommends methods for channeling a portion of federal tax revenues back to the states. "Johnson and his aides seek advice and know how to use it," says Pechman. "They have turned to consultants because they find it increasingly difficult to attract men to Government jobs...
...same time, they must proceed as unobtrusively as possible, for they could very easily alienate anti-Goldwater conservatives who thought Goldwater reactionary and voted for Johnson. In some areas of the country, this type of person represents a large portion of the electorate that normally votes Republican. To lose them would be a GOP disaster...
Throughout that spotty and ambiguous portion of Harvard's long history which we have on record, the Law School and GSAS have maintained an unbroken affiliation with the Democratic Party, the Business School with the Republican Party, the College with the Republicans until 1948 and the Democrats since 1952, and Radcliffe and the Faculty blissfully unpredictable--the closest thing the University has to bell weather counties...