Word: shoehorn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vladimir Zworykin, inventor of the iconoscope, the first effective television-camera tube, sold the idea to his Princeton neighbor, the great Mathematician John von Neumann. Teaming up with Rossby, who provided the meteorological knowledge, Von Neumann and his brilliant assistant Dr. Jule Charney devised ingenious mathematical tricks to shoehorn weather observations into computing machines...
Timofeev's method was simple. He tried to shoehorn the cooperative societies in Poland, Hungary, Albania and East Germany into the international alliance. The votes of regional cooperatives and Communist collectives (each would get one to ten votes, according to membership) in the satellite countries would be a decisive step toward eventual control of the I.C.A. But leaders of the cooperatives in the West were ready for the assault. To be admitted to I.C.A. membership, a cooperative must follow certain principles laid down by the world organization. One of these is that a cooperative society must determine...
Then Fields read a magazine article about the laryngoscope, a device like a shoehorn with a built-in light for looking down people's windpipes. This was for him. Lest he be accused of "practicing medicine" without a license, Fields got advance approval from the Omaha-Douglas County Medical Society. He and his crews took a hospital course in use of the laryngoscope, and Fields talked an insurance company into donating two of the $65 gadgets...
...fixed an inhalator tube to the baby's nose, slipped the laryngoscope down behind the tongue root, lifted the "clapper valve" (epiglottis) and looked in. Clearly visible was a one-inch celluloid ball (from a rattle), filling the windpipe. Alligator forceps thrust down the channel of the surgical shoehorn brought the ball out in 30 seconds, and Baby Thomas gasped. Soon he was breathing regularly again...
...controls. Take sizes, for instance. Before the war we were making a nice job -6 ft. 6 by 26. Along comes the war, and the Government tells us what to make-6 ft. 3 by 22 was the largest. Son, the morticians had to fit them in with a shoehorn. All because the Government didn't know people had been growing bigger." Lem flicked an ash off his brown Palm Beach suit. "You've seen those high-class metal handles. We couldn't get them any more, so we had to use wood. Now, you tell...