Word: sacs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue of the "Varsity" satirized the Student Council, university president Dr. Sidney Smith, certain professors, and the university in general. The main story in the issue, headed "Remedial Sex Compulsory, SAC Finances Field Work," was allegedly a satire on Smith's annual report, which dealt with remedial English...
Crate Lifter. Then Bernstein heard that Manhattan's Dr. Samuel Alcott Thompson had developed an operation which quickly restored people like himself to useful, active lives. It sounded too good to be true: the surgeon just dumps talcum powder into the heart sac in a 20-minute operation. Satisfied that it had worked well on other patients, Bernstein had the operation in July. Last week, at his company's Philadelphia plant, 50-year-old Abe Bernstein put in a nine-hour day, hefted 100-lb. crates with no visible harm. Said he: "The only time I feel lousy...
...Sac Slitter. As Dr. Thompson describes it, the operation works this way: the heart sac is slit open, then two drams of especially fine talc are spread on the inside of the sac membrane. Fine as it is, the talc acts as an irritant. The sac becomes inflamed and much more blood courses through it; then it adheres to the heart muscle, and its blood-gorged vessels throw out branches into the muscle. These branches increase the muscle's blood supply and, hence, its power to keep the heart beating...
...thing that most worried LeMay and his command was the possibility that their outfit could be crippled before it ever got orders to strike back. LeMay has a hunch that SAC itself offers a more tempting initial target for an all-out Russian atomic attack on the U.S. than cities like New York and Detroit. That is why he keeps his men on ever-ready alert; why all of them constantly wear sidearms ; why Offutt is fenced in and on the watch for saboteurs and guarded against paratroop surprise; why two men have been trained to spring to LeMay...
Guarding themselves and keeping fit is a negative necessity; retaliating against an enemy is SAC's real job. That is why, nearly every night, the big B-36s nose through the long twilight of the 55th parallel, learning more & more about Russia's kind of weather, and how to get through it, in case of war, with their death-spreading weapons...