Word: skirting
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...outer part of the transplanted human cornea can be left in place, cloudy as it is. Dr. Stone removes most of the thickness in the center, and sets in place a narrow, artificial cornea made of polymethyl methacrylate surrounded by a Teflon skirt (see diagram). The very center of the device is threaded so that it can be moved in or out to adjust its optical characteristics. And if the patient should need further major surgery, the plug can be unscrewed all the way, giving the surgeon direct access to the inside of the eyeball. As for the inside, where...
Although mobile homes are built to travel, it takes a truck to haul them (unlike smaller travel trailers, which can be towed by an ordinary auto). Their owners tend to set them on foundations, skirt them with shrubbery and even porches. Manufacturers claim that, rather than mobility, they are selling a prefabricated, delivered-to-the-site house that is easy to relocate. "We are the answer to low-cost housing," says M.H.M.A. Managing Director Edward Wilson. "The home-builders can't do much about it. They're tied. We have moved into a vacuum." The makers of mobile...
...simply that the grace of his style survives translation. His style is an indication of the clarity of his thought. His mind works with a lucidity that seems to be exclusively the gift of old or middle-aged men, men who are past the complex years when every passing skirt or newspaper article excites them. It is a beautiful simplicity, but one that exists at the expense of turbulent reality as young people know it. It cannot convey, because it does not remember, what being a child is like. The Words is not an account of an extraordinary childhood...
...week I get a luxury flat in Moscow and a beautiful country cottage. I have my car, my three fur coats, and I can travel the world whenever I want. The only thing that would attract me to Hollywood," she added demurely, hitching up her skirt for photographers like any Western starlet, "would be a really interesting part...
...some of these same bugs have already been worked out of smaller air-cushion vehicles, such as the 40-ft. British-made Hovercraft that Bell was demonstrating last week for oil company executives in Galveston Bay. Wearing a rubber skirt around its waist to prevent leakage of the air cushion and to ward off obstacles, this vehicle even cleared a 4½-ft. fence to show off its agility. In what may be the first military use of an air-cushion vehicle, the British plan to send a pair of armed Hovercraft to Borneo late this month for use against...