Word: scalpeled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture also has aims beyond taking a scalpel to the more peculiar states of Lone Star mentality. It is evidently intended to be something of an American epic, running, as it does, for well over three hours and covering a quarter century in the life of the ranch- owning Benedict clan. On the surface, these people would seem to make admirabe characters for a modern epic because they live on a large scale. Their "ranch," a domain of 596,000 acres, is the setting of some huge social affairs--mostly weddings and funerals--and a number of magnificent fights...
...Except for accidents, war wounds and inborn deformities, surgery is on the way out, said one of Europe's most noted surgeons, Dr. Francois Ody of Geneva. "The great masters of the scalpel, admired by my generation, will soon become legendary figures," he prophesied. "Hundreds of instruments will be discarded. No more operating tables, diathermic knives and anesthesia installations ... no more operative shock, no more anguish, no more pain." This revolution will be wrought, Dr. Ody believes, by improved internal medication - "All the victories which have been the pride of brilliant surgeons will be forgotten on the day when...
...picture, as in the novel, the dramatic scalpel does not cut very deep. But there are vivid clinical scenes in hospital ward and peasant hovel, touching sequences of the young doctor's struggles with Auvergne's backward farmers, who prefer faith healers to doctors...
Even as Hagerty talked, the President was being readied for the scalpel. He was wheeled past a floor kitchen, past the office of the chief of Walter Reed's obstetrics and gynecology section, into the main corridor and finally into Operating Room 6, directly above the pillared entrance to the hospital. Outside the operating room stood Secret Service Man Rowley. Assigned to carry progress reports from the operating room to the President's anxious family was Dr. Snyder. Mamie, John and Dr. Milton Eisenhower, the President's youngest brother (see EDUCATION), waited in the Williamsburg-green living...
...youths of the Poujadist Service d'Ordre, the 400 delegates approved Poujade's program. All talk of mutiny was quelled by Poujade's threat to resign. "If you want me as active chairman," he said, "you must support me. The day I have to take the scalpel, my hand will not shake. But remember, the surgeon never operates without the full consent of the family." With a shouted ovation, the family gave its consent...