Word: rubberizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intact so that a new rib could grow in. (Adjacent ribs sometimes have to be spread, but not removed, to give the surgeon's hands more room.) The snipped rib was laid in a waste pan for the "un-sterile nurse" to take away. Anesthetist Machray placed a rubber tube in the King's windpipe to supply an anesthetic gas (such as cyclopropane), under positive pressure, to keep the lungs inflated...
...gone too far in restricting competition. It filed an antitrust action against the two (plus Du Pont's subsidiary, Remington Arms), charging that they had conspired to restrain trade by splitting up markets for a list of goods ranging from Cellophane and rayon to insecticides and synthetic rubber...
...enemies, real and imaginary. At various times he imagined that the Jews, the Catholic Church, and above all Wilmington's Du Ponts, were out to get him. Once he had Bennett send an agent to Wilmington to nose out what the Du Ponts were doing in, synthetic rubber. When the agent died suddenly, Bennett sent another who, by coincidence, suffered a fatal stroke. Cried Ford: "Harry, don't send any more men down there . . . they're killing them...
...patiently to take over Green's job. No noisy battles disturbed the convention calm. "We've been around a long time," explained President George Harrison of the Railway Clerks' union. "We know each other too well to get excited." The convention yawned through dull speeches and rubber-stamped everything the executive council and committees offered...
Instead, the old ballplayer disintegrated, subtly but suddenly, into a jerky, rubber-faced caricature of all the rough diamonds of the diamond since the days of Shoeless Joe Jackson. Something seemed to go wrong with his eyes, and he was seized, in plain view of all, with electric charges of wild vigor, wild friendliness and wild anxiety. He emitted a hoarse, gobbling cry. The audience, instantly enslaved, gave one seal-like bark of obedient laughter and then bathed him in 20 seconds of delighted applause. Oldtime Funnyman Bert Lahr (Hot-Cha!, George...