Word: scalpeled
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...There is, of course, the process of impeachment," the Tribune noted thoughtfully, testing a scalpel on its horny thumb. It thought that Truman's "present offers to send hundreds of thousands of American boys to their deaths in Europe . . . fall easily within the framework of 'high crimes & misdemeanors.' " But the Trib was afraid that "impeachment, if started today, would fail for lack of Democratic votes." On the whole, it preferred a different course anyhow...
...Montparnasse friends remember him as an overpowering gay blade who talked, drank and painted at a furious clip and did all three magnificently. His paintings, on show in a Paris gallery last week, were sad and bony as a squirrel in March-cold and sometimes acid in color, scalpel-sharp in line. They consisted mostly of hollow-chested nudes, their breasts pinched with cold, whose bones and muscles were as clearly delineated as in anatomical drawings and whose eyes were black and full of misery. His landscapes, too, had a withered look. "The sun in Gruber...
...wife (Paula Raymond) in a Latin American country on the brink of revolution, suddenly finds himself a prisoner of the ailing dictator (well played by José Ferrer) who is dying of a brain tumor. While Dr. Grant ponders whether to operate, revolutionists urge him to let the scalpel slip, and Ferrer offers some glib justifications of dictatorship...
...drier relieved 16 boredom by listening to the Third Man Theme through earphones. In Boston, a dentist drilled away at a patient who was listening to Brahms's popular lullaby In New York City, a plastic surgeon about to operate clapped earphones on the patient, then used his scalpel while the patient listened to the tune, Lovely to Look At In Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, an expectant mother was prepared for delivery of her baby while the strains of Victor Herbert's Toyland came through speakers concealed in the labor-room walls...
...McEvitt reported to the Journal of the American Medical Association, is bad enough for men, but tragic for women. It results simply from "lights and shadows playing on an uneven surface." Acids and dry ice have been used to level the skin; so have mechanical devices such as scalpel blades, razor blades, needles grouped like a currycomb, rough stones, disks and brushes...