Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terror. Near her, a young man gazed emptily at the ceiling, suddenly leaped from his mat, clutched a filthy rag to his mouth and ran for the door, vomiting as he went. A little girl danced happily around the room, holding a tattered rag doll to her breast, then sat down on the dirty floor and cried soundlessly, helplessly in the shocking, numbing discovery that the long trip of escape was ended...
...least twice each year, for as long back as we can remember, we have sat down at our desk, and begun to think what a great invention the typewriter is, and how useful it would be in an examination room. But nothing has ever come of our notion, and the fact that we repeat it now is not an indication that we really expect the Faculty to consider the matter in January, but merely a nod to the passing of time and an assurance, to those of you who doubt, that there are still some things in this world that...
...Roberta Westwood, with an enlarged and overactive thyroid. After four weeks of preparation and a day-before dress rehearsal, Dr. Kroger carried out his hypnoanesthesia at Edgewater Hospital, and most of the patient's thyroid was cut out in an hour-long operation. Mrs. Westwood wakened as directed, sat up on the operating table, asked for a drink of water and walked to the wheel chair to go back to her room. Said she: "I felt no pain. I could only feel pressure and what seemed like tugging at my throat...
Perry Como Show (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). Guests: Gina Lollobrigida, Groucho Marx...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Madame Butterfly, with Albanese...