Word: sinus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tape-recorded message. Queen Elizabeth II, who was bedded in London with a sinus infection, announced to wildly cheering crowds at the Empire Games' final ceremony in Cardiff, Wales that Charles was getting the title which Edward I first bestowed upon his own son in 1301. "I intend," said the Queen, "to create my son Prince of Wales today. When he is grown up, I will present him to you at Caernarvon." In addition to being Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Prince and Great...
...term junior senator from Wisconsin, whose activities as chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation gave the word "McCarthyism" to the American vocabulary, died at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Washington, D.C. Since his 1954 censure by the Senate, he had frequented the hospital with sinus trouble, bursitis, and a knee injury...
...most heart operations these would have been enough. But in this case Surgeon Bailey wanted to keep up a gentle blood flow through the heart muscle while he operated. So he lifted the heart and turned it, exposing the coronary sinus through which most of the blood is drained from the heart. In a ring of stitches he made a cut and slipped in a fourth tube...
...refused to give up is Cleveland's Claude Schaeffer Beck. For 20 years he has staked his professional reputation on a still controversial operation now universally known as the Beck I. He tries to restore the blood supply to deprived muscle by: 1) partly closing the coronary sinus to keep the blood in the heart muscle longer; 2) deliberately irritating the surface of the heart muscle itself and the lining of the heart sac by scraping them with an abrader like a spiked golf shoe; 3) dusting irritant asbestos powder inside the sac; and 4) stitching a piece...
Case's opening statement rambled from South Dakota weather (blustery) to his family remedy for sinus headaches (a nasal jelly). But there were some hard facts. On Jan. 25. said Case, he received word from South Dakota that a Nebraska lawyer named John Neff had contributed $2,500 to his campaign. Since Case had never received more than $300 in a single contribution, the news "sort of took my breath away." The donation was especially puzzling because Neff's name "did not mean anything to me." Case therefore checked around, learned that Neff had been asking around about...