Word: rib
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver was telling an improbable yarn about the G.O.P., but asserting that it "could have happened." The Keef's rib-tickler: After a newsman asked a Republican Congressman to define "Modern Republicanism," a Democratic bystander gave the answer: "Modern Republicanism is excitingly and dynamically conservative. It is neither inflexibly traditional nor discordantly progressive. It is at once distinctive and secure, but never overwhelming or confining. It has dignity, quality and dependability. It is designed for men and women of early middle age with an income of over $25,000 a year...
...Copson has successfully freeze-dried mushrooms, carrots, beef rib and sirloin steak, veal cutlets, pork chops, lobster, shrimp, strawberries and several kinds of fish. Uncooked green peas keep their shape but become as light as miniature ping-pong balls. Freeze-dried chicken breasts look like balsa wood. For gourmets, freeze-dried foods offer some interesting possibilities. Chicken or fish could be made to soak up several times their weight of wine or other flavorsome liquid...
...Hallett and newcomers Stan Merkel and Bill Gill all did a lot to break up the strong Indian forward rushes, but in general Dartmouth's heavier scrum dominated the game. The Crimson was hampered by the loss of Bob Huff with a broken rib, and the absence of Tom Fritz with a bad sunburn...
Three dozen or more minor blood vessels had to be tied off to stanch the bleeding. One surgeon would hold a clamp on a blood vessel while another passed the suture silk around it, deftly tying knots. With ribs and breastbone now lying bare, Bailey chose which bones to cut, called "rib shears." A scrub nurse handed him a device like fowl shears with offset handles. With firm pressure of powerful hands. Bailey himself snipped the breastbone...
...Rib spreaders." A bridgelike gadget was clamped in place; with a few turns of the screw it spread the ribs six inches apart. The assistants cut deeper through the chest. "Lung retractors." The heaving lungs were pushed aside. Many more blood vessels were tied off. Bailey slit the heart sac almost from top to bottom, took quick stitches in it, left long threads which were clamped to the rib spreaders to hold the sac open...