Word: shoulderful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gone is the traditional 'Cliffie with "her stringy dark hair, long, pale, intense face and black wool stockings; her green bookbag, stapled at birth to her right shoulder." In her place has emerged, "with new plumage and pinfeathers, a species that would no doubt have startled her ancestors...
...most urgent job was to restore the arm's circulation. Specialists in blood-vessel repair first made sure the blood would have a way to get out. With neat and delicate sutures, they stitched the arm's two main veins to their extensions in Ev's shoulder (see diagram). Next, they opened a way for the blood to get in by rejoining the major (brachial) artery. Says Dr. Shaw: "When we took off the clamps from the artery above the break, we rejoiced at the pinking up of the arm as the blood ran through...
...operating table beside its owner, the arm was still attached only by suture threads. To fix it firmly, an orthopedic surgeon drove a stainless-steel rod into the broken upper end of the humerus, through its squishy marrow center, until the end of the rod projected into the shoulder. He fitted the broken bone ends together, pushing the rod down into the marrow of the undamaged lower bone. If new bone grows well enough to make a solid union, the rod may later be withdrawn; otherwise it will be left in place...
...surgery is to rejoin the nerves so that they will resume their task of controlling the muscles. Neurosurgeons usually prefer to wait for weeks or months after the original operation before they attempt the job. The M.G.H. surgeons identified the three main nerve bundles in Ev Knowles's shoulder and arm, drew them together, and rejoined each with a single dacron stitch-a holding operation so that the nerves will not shrink...
...morning last week, Window Washer Frank Olsen, 49, was strapped in his belt and working on one of the old-fashioned windows of Radio City Music Hall when he heard "a whining sound like nothing I ever heard before." He looked over his shoulder at the 42-story Equitable Life Assurance Building on Sixth Avenue, completed last September. "I saw the scaffold falling," he said later. "The steel cables were draped all over it. It came down like a bullet and landed with a sound like an explosion...