Word: ribbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From high in the Himalayas, a runner brought eight-day-old word that Sir Ed mund Hillary, 34, who one year ago reached the top of Mount Everest with Sherpa Guide Tenzing Norkey, was bat tling an unexpected threat to his life on another peak. After breaking a rib while rescuing a climbing companion on lofty (23,800 ft.) Mount Baruntse, Hillary fell ill with pneumonia. Aided by oxygen and penicillin sent from a nearby U.S. expedition, he was presumably being carried down from the 22,500-ft. heights of a glacier by fellow mountaineers...
With three sophomores, four juniors and only one senior, the Jumbo squad is more experienced than a year ago when it won only two meets. But there's some question whether the Tufts' 137 pound man will start. He injured a rib in practice this week. Without his services, the squad will be decidedly weaker...
Ether is put through the tube to produce deep anesthesia. (Oxygen is still being given.) If the pulse rate drops below 60, the anesthesiologist injects atropine. Procaine is injected into the rib cage and around the heart, and, finally, as the surgeon lays the heart bare, into the heart itself. Only then is the actual operation of widening the valve performed. The anesthesiologist injects lidocaine to block the nerves of the rib cage. As the wound is being closed, he twirls the knobs on the anesthesia machine to give a mixture of nitrous oxide and oxygen. The patient...
Dream Wife (MGM) is a merry little barbecue of Adam's Rib. When the lights go down, Gary Grant comes up looking shy, eligible and enormously wealthy as a big U.S. importer who has dropped in on a Middle Eastern oil kingdom to make a dicker of some vague sort. While at the Bukistanian court, Importer Grant spots an item he would love to pay duty on: the Khan's sexy daughter, Princess Tarji (Betta St. John...
Edward M. Borges '54, the driver, escaped without injury. Thomas H. Stearns '53 has a suspected cracked rib, and Frederick Gooding, Jr. '54 has been detained in Stillman Infirmary...