Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ultracold cannula. Dr. Rand found that temperatures as low as -70° C. maintained for as long as 17 minutes had no appreciable effect on the stubbornly resistant pituitary. So he dropped the temperature inside the gland to between -170° C. and -190° C. With a probe-or sometimes with two, one in each lobe-held at this freeze level for 15 minutes, Dr. Rand's group has safely achieved the desired degree of pituitary destruction in more than 50 cases. Other neurosurgeons agree that for the pituitary, the supercold technique is "superior to all the rest...
...Cahan at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center involved a cancer of the tongue, 2 in. by 1¼ in., in an 84-year-old man. After only a mouthwash sort of anesthesia, Dr. Cahan froze the surface of the cancer. Later he inserted the liquid nitrogen probe deep into the tissue. In each of three required operations, the tissues were frozen and allowed to thaw. The patient complained of only a mild burning sensation that lasted a few hours after each treatment. In three weeks, the cancer shrank to the size of a small...
...Darlington itself, Harlan ordered the NLRB to further probe "the purpose and effect" of the closing in relation to the combine's other workers. He left open for future review by the lower court the board's finding that Darlington was an integral part of Deering Milliken. Although this may yet bring the case back to the Supreme Court, the union joyously hailed the Darlington decision as a Waterloo for "large union-busting textile complexes in the South," which "can no longer play musical chairs with workers' lives and the welfare of textile communities...
...Practically everyone on the paper is looking around for a new job," says a staffer. The education correspondent recently returned to his old beat on the Times of London; a quartet of reporters hired to make up a so-called "probe team" quit after finding little freedom to probe...
...greatest challenges is facing himself; in today's portraiture the encounter has become stranger and stranger. Freed from the chore of sticking slavishly to the surface likeness, the artist today is free to probe more than skin-deep. The result often produces a psychological study in depth that eludes even the roving camera's eye. Or, in the instance of Raphael Soyer's Homage to Thomas Eakins (opposite), it can bring to life a whole galaxy of familiar figures, bound together by the unifying vision of one man who knew and admired them...