Word: sac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...universally known as the Beck I. He tries to restore the blood supply to deprived muscle by: 1) partly closing the coronary sinus to keep the blood in the heart muscle longer; 2) deliberately irritating the surface of the heart muscle itself and the lining of the heart sac by scraping them with an abrader like a spiked golf shoe; 3) dusting irritant asbestos powder inside the sac; and 4) stitching a piece of fat (from the lining of the chest wall) to the sac when he closes...
...Avoid Insult." Around and about these capabilities and problems there is gathering an acute awareness of the importance of the military-diplomatic role. "So we're the big stick," said one SAC officer. "So maybe old Dulles thinks of us when he sits down at the mahogany." And when Admiral Radford one day paraphrased Teddy Roosevelt, "Never extend a military projection beyond its capability of winning," one of his officers echoed afterwards: "Substitute 'diplomatic' for 'military' and you have a currently valid statement. In fact, you have a policy...
...wartime to command the Eighth Air Force's 96th Bomb Group at a ripe 36, led the first shuttle-bomb raid (from England to Russia and back), the famed Schweinfurt raids, flew 43 combat missions, became LeMay's director of operations in 1953, is now commander of SAC's Fifteenth Air Force...
...midyear, SAC will take delivery on its first Boeing KC-135 jet tankers, which, had they been in operation last week, would have cut about six hours off the round-the-world mission. *Since the flyers traveled at about half the speed of the earth (1,000 m.p.h. at the equator), the time span between sunrises was compressed to 16-hr. "sun days," half light, half dark. They caught their first sunset over the Great Lakes, a few hours after their i p.m. takeoff, thereafter saw the sun rise and set at eight-hour intervals, i.e., sunrise over the Atlantic...