Word: sheathe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because she wears sterile gloves to handle sterile instruments) handed Price Thomas a cutter something like a pair of rose pruners. With these he snipped a rib. Then he worked around, cut the same rib near the breastbone and removed it, taking care to leave part of the rib sheath intact so that a new rib could grow in. (Adjacent ribs sometimes have to be spread, but not removed, to give the surgeon's hands more room.) The snipped rib was laid in a waste pan for the "un-sterile nurse" to take away. Anesthetist Machray placed a rubber...
...Bagpipes. Miller picks the tunes, picks the singers to record them, sometimes even picks the albums to sheath the records. Latest pickings: offbeat instrumentations, e.g., harpsichord background for Clooney, French horns for Crooner Guy Mitchell. Says Miller: "You've got to work out a gimmick that'll get people's attention and hold it. You need that sense of communication." One senseless communication: a Dinah Shore vocal backed by six caterwauling bagpipes. Admits Miller...
Probably without analyzing it, the Victorian woman felt impelled to cover herself with layer upon heavy layer of elegant materials, awkwardly expanded with hoops and bustles, to help her personality compete with the cluttered detail of her rooms. The woman of today . . . can sparkle, even in a simple sheath gown, without fear that the elegance of her personality and appearance will be lost...
...Hell, no. Do you want some coffee?" He was stretched back in his chair with his feet on a cluttered desk. His white shirt was open at the neck, and a set of large, red plastic pens was sticking out of a sheath attached to his belt. His hands were toying with an old pipe which had lost half of its stem many years ago. On one wall was hanging a black-board which read "Crimson interview at 1:30--Later: Finish 'Mass Appeal' Chapter--Look for Hickey Letter--Write Ben Hibbs." Bill explained that Admiral Hickey is the Navy...
Jacques Fath, serenely confident that women will gladly carry around several yards of window drapes attached to their elbows, set off his strapless white satin sheath gown with "conversation piece" gloves trailing sweeping panels of white satin lined in champagne tulle. Raphael forsook needle & thread for the saw & hammer, peeled off wafer-thin slices of plywood and riveted them-with diamonds, naturally-to the cape of his suit. Castillo of Lanvin's rose-red skirt, fanning out in a graceful arc "like the petals of a full-blown rose," used 33 yards of taffeta to achieve that effect...