Word: sheath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...metal pins and skin grafts from his abdomen, has slowly knitted together during the past four months. He still has no feeling or movement in the limb. Not for another few months will the surgeons undertake thg. tricky task of reopening the leg to sew together the finger-thick sheath of the sciatic (spinal) nerve. They are going on surgeons' experience that nerves mend better when they are connected several months after an accident, figure that Smith will start walking again-although with a severe limp-within a year...
...save the trapped game and reptiles, the Southern Rhodesian government assigned a total force of three white game wardens and eight native trackers, who are working from dawn to dusk. Wearing bathing trunks and frogman flippers, armed with sheath knives to protect themselves from crocodiles, they grapple in the water with the terrified wildlife. A baboon weakened by hunger and privation can easily be captured by hand. Monkeys are more difficult, especially the vervets, who can swim underwater for as long as two minutes. The technique of capture is the same for both-one hand grabs the tail, the other...
Under the spotlight, her thin, sharp face had the moody glower of an unsuccessful manicurist. Her lank, hemp-colored hair splashed in uncombed confusion above her black velvet sheath. But weird as she looked, slack-mouthed, hazel-eyed Singer Tammy Grimes sounded wonderful-no mean accomplishment in the cramped quarters of Julius Monk's Downstairs at the Upstairs, a crowded Manhattan nightclub where the man who moves may catch his neighbor's elbow in his ear or his companion's highball...
When Joan was hired last January, a tropical spell hit Pan Am's Fifth Avenue office. It was those fuselage-hugging sheath dresses she wore. Those doe eyes. That platinum blonde hair. And all that Hollywood mascara. "Tone down your appearance," warned Pan Am. So Joan toned down the mascara and eye shadow, sacked her sheaths in favor of a white blouse and black skirt. But she drew the line at a suggestion to switch her hair color to a more businesslike strawberry blonde...
...svelte blonde in a black sheath dress, with mink stole draped casually over her right arm, stopped during an inspection of a new apartment house on Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard last week and gushed: "It's the most gorgeous thing I've ever seen. But, I mean, it's even nicer than our house." Near her, a trim, wavy-haired man gravely replied: "Thank you, madam." For Norman Tishman, 56, president of Manhattan's Tishman Realty & Construction Co., the compliment was no surprise; his company had planned the building to be the most luxurious cooperative...