Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operating suite at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mrs. Cesarini took a general anesthetic before Dr. Harilaos Sakellarides, an orthopedic surgeon, began a series of complicated surgical procedures. Arthritis had thickened the connective tissue in Mrs. Cesarini's hand and fingers and twisted them all out of shape. As a result, the spaces between her joints were narrowed, the main joints were dislocated, tendons and ligaments were pulled out of place. Mrs. Cesarini had what doctors call a "swanneck deformity" in her fingers...
...capital cities of the U.S. took shape for the most part when a public building was something with a cupola and plenty of columns. New York's state capitol is a monument to the architectural style that might be called Ugly American-a granite mishmash of Second Empire, Francis I and Romanesque, with Doric columns, Corinthian columns, tile roofs, slate roofs, dormers, chimneys and rusticated stone work. The city it dominates is appropriately dismal. But last week plans were unveiled that will make Albany, in the words of Governor Nelson Rockefeller, "the most beautiful capital city in the United...
...light bulb of a sun, and even the earliest shopper sniffs about anxiously for a hint of sea smell in the icy air. But by April's end, summer seems only split seconds away; across the U.S. last week, bathing suit sales began to show something of the shape to come. The classic one-piece is here to stay, but the more adventuresome like...
...unlikely products as peanut butter, meat tenderizer, cocktail mixes and blue cheese spread are now dispensed from aerosol cans, and the industry is working on squeeze tubes that will give forth coffee, fish bait and ski wax. "Shrink films" of plastic that mold themselves to a product's shape now protect everything from layettes to turkeys, and other films are being developed that can wrap around liquids and eliminate the need for bottles...
...made clear that he has little use for that way of thinking which sees "total victory" as the goal of all U.S. policy. But he said that through a restrained and responsible use of its power, the United States could check the spread of Communism, and could hope to "shape its destiny toward the fulfillment of the highest values of our civilization...