Word: shunt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rehearsing, they utilized oppression by numbers, deploying hordes of little men in tight black suits who had no function other than being more people, adding support to whatever the authorities said and subtracting courage from whatever impulses of defiance the dazed team members could muster. The one assigned to shunt us from room to room had just the faintest suggestion of eyes beneath foot-thick glasses with huge black plastic frames. The curl of his lips when he yanked Dave Gordon half-dressed from the dressing room for the "dress rehearsal" was enough to grow boils on your heart. "Every...
...tubes permanently implanted in their arms, with the ends exposed for hooking up to the machine. Avram uses instead a technique of joining an artery and vein inside the forearm, which causes the veins to enlarge. For each treatment, one needle is inserted near the site of this internal shunt to withdraw blood, and another higher up to return it. Thanks to this refinement, two Brooklyn patients are working as longshoremen, with little added risk of infection. Another is a garage mechanic...
Clark himself admits that "the cornering is not yet what I'd like it to be," and says that if the engine is tuned too high, "you get wheelspin even at 6,000 r.p.m. in top gear." Still, shrugs Jim, who has never had a serious shunt, "I don't see any special danger in the car-insofar as danger...
...prerogative in the selection process was challenged last year when officialdom proposed that each House should contain a cross section of the student body. Finley's eyebrows still snap at references to the arbitrary plan of placement. "We mustn't have the authorities shunt men about. The Houses will be driven to uniformity." Eliot House seniors steeped in the Finley tradition of taste and style are equally opposed to random selection. Says one Eliot House upperclassman of the sophomores admitted under the new system, "You can see a certain sloppiness now in the dining hall. You know, the Winthrop House...
...during the mornings that Jacobs finds excitement and crisis. Twice in a single day this year he was asked to obtain rare plastic shunt valves for delicate brain operations in South America. Jacobs found a medical supply firm that had them, and persuaded a private airline passenger to carry them down in his baggage...