Word: rubbering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ivory Pegs & Rubber Gloves. To doctors far & wide, Dr. Sauerbruch is a reminder of the onetime glory of German medicine. In his time, he operated on Britain's late King George V and many another European statesman. He became world-famed for his daring pioneering in lung surgery; one of his inventions was a chest operation in a low-pressure chamber to avoid collapse of the lungs. During World War I (a general while still in his 30s) he developed a method of hooking an artificial arm to the muscles of a stump by means of ivory pegs...
...Sauerbruch has been known to perform three operations at once: his assistants cut open the patients and Sauerbruch moved from table to table to make the crucial excisions. He invariably operates barehanded. Rubber gloves, he says, destroy the delicate feel of his work. A Sauerbruch operation is a continuous bellow; he shouts at his assistants, shouts for his instruments. Once, irked by a clumsy assistant, he slashed the fellow with his scalpel to teach him a lesson...
...turns sheltering each other from the wind, saving their strength for a late-afternoon sprint. The tour was broken into 21 laps, with overnight and one-day stops between (the cyclist with least total elapsed time is the winner). At frequent intervals, some of them sucked up wine by rubber hose from tankards on their handlebars. Ahead of the racers moved a cavalcade of commercials on wheels; behind came les suiveurs-masseurs, newspapermen, photographers. In some bombed towns, they had to be billeted in prisons and brothels...
...some, the cream on the boom was curdling. Eversharp Inc., which turned in a dazzling $1,074,274 last year in its second quarter, was down to $550,575. The rubber industry also had begun to feel the pinch of overproduction (TIME, June 23). Example: General Tire & Rubber Co.'s six months' earnings of $2,650,912 were down from last year...
...best lists. Brute Force is a prisoner of all the old jailbreak cliches. There is the decent but weak warden (Roman Bohnen) who can't control his mild but maniacal head guard (Hume Cronyn), a sadist who plays Wagner while softening up a prisoner with a rubber hose. There is the boozy prison doctor (Art Smith) with a heart of gold and some of the crummiest "philosophy" ever scraped out of the bottom of a cracker barrel. There is the stool pigeon who is efficiently murdered by his fellow convicts; and the steady old hand (Charles Bickford) who grimly...