Word: salts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting such resistance it generates too much heat. With the skull flap out of the way, the surgeons made a shallow pan in its place, using a metal strip as border and the dura mater (the brain's parchment-like covering) as the bottom. This they filled with salt solution from which all gas had been removed (ultrasound is transmitted best through a liquid medium...
...salt pan was removed and the bone flap replaced. (It would grow back solidly into the skull in three or four weeks.) By the time the patient was wheeled back to his room, the uncontrollable tremor, the involuntary bending of the arm and turning in of the thumb on the right side had disappeared. In a few months, both patients will return to Iowa City for treatment of the ansa lenticularis on the right, to halt the Parkinsonian movements of their left sides...
...punter is balanced, he'll be accurate," says Father Fenton. Fenton strives for the accurate spiral that rolls for extra yardage, schools his punters to aim for coffin corner from as far out as 55 yds. A Fenton-trained kicker gauges the wind like an old salt, will boot low against it, high with it. The best ones can even tack the ball into a wind angling up the field to get a few added yards. One other Fenton law: ignore charging linemen. Says he: "It's better to risk a blocked kick than to take your...
Little joy is to be found in Boston these days. The whole city feels itself spiritually sacked, burned, and plowed under with salt after last Friday's announcement that the Baseball Writers Association had chosen Mickey Mantle the American League's Most Valuable Player instead of the only rational choice, Ted Williams...
...mastered concrete and raised it to a level where it can compete with marble and granite is not an architect (though he holds honorary degrees as such) but an engineer. He is restless, wrinkled, grey Pier Luigi Nervi, 66, whose soaring exhibition halls, breath-taking airplane hangars, utilitarian salt depots and tobacco warehouses are hailed by many as among the handsomest structures built in Europe in this century. One Italian critic has found an apt phrase to describe Nervi's work: "Poetry in concrete...