Word: silver
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...brain in the arterial traffic rotary ("circle of Willis"), is a major operation. It involves sawing through and lifting a flap of skull and moving the brain out of the way. The commonest method of treatment has been to tie off the aneurysm at its stem with a tiny silver clip, or close the artery with clips on each side of the stem. Dr. Gallagher was not satisfied with these methods because merely touching the aneurysm to attach a clip might cause it to burst with disastrous results. To destroy the aneurysm with no risk of bleeding, he wanted...
...occasion for this beery bedlam was the end of the 18th America's Cup competition. Once more, as it has for 111 years, the battered silver trophy remained securely in the U.S. Going into the week with a 3-to-1 edge, the U.S.'s brilliant Bus Mosbacher swiftly closed out the best 4-of-7 series. In the kind of breezy (10 to 17 knots) but not blowy day that Weatherly likes best, he beat Gretel's Jock Sturrock to the start, soon had a healthy lead and increased it with every mark...
There were two major changes during Conway's Mastership, together accounting for the great increase in popularity. The first project was to renovate completely the House dining hall, removing all traces of the old one except the solid silver chandeliers, valued at $35,000 each...
...Pollak Lectures were established in 1954 by a gift of Leo Silver, in honor on the Austrian-born journalist...
Named for a rock outcrop in the New South Wales back country where it began mining a treasure-trove of silver, lead and zinc in 1885, B.H.P. turned to steelmaking in the early 1900s. Led by the late Essington Lewis, a single-minded empire builder who made himself Australia's "Mr. Steel," the company doggedly pursued efficiency, threw up new plants, cornered rich ore and coal reserves, and by 1935 had gobbled up its only major competitor. But it was the pell-mell postwar growth of heavy industry and construction in Australia that gave B.H.P. its biggest forward push...