Word: slips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Traditional Trick. From studying patients' sores and where they got them, Dr. Hanson is convinced that, with rare exceptions, the upper arm is not the proper place for adults' injections. The muscle bed there is not big enough, he says, and a slight slip of the needle is enough to drive it into the radial nerve, wh re it may cause paralysis...
...department-store windows some five years ago. They were first shown under tartan skirts for college girls, and bought not as particularly proper but as overwhelmingly practical. No girdle or garter belt was needed, and no longer were knees, neglected between the long socks' end and the slip's beginning, left bare to redden in the cold; slips, in fact, might be completely forgotten, too, as the long tights were warmer and less bulky. But tights remained off limits off campus. Not so, of course, for beatniks, whose heavy black turtleneck sweaters had never looked particularly go with...
...Chrysler attorney who took over command of the company in 1950. Colbert began a feverish drive to modernize Chrysler's plants, and was responsible for the rakish "Forward Look" that made Chrysler's 1957 cars a runaway success. But in the process, he let the company's quality standards slip scandalously. By 1959, Chrysler sales had slipped from a solid 25% of the U.S. auto market under Walter P. down to 11.3%. From a $120 million profit in 1957, the company staggered into a $34 million loss...
...made one bad slip on the January day he fled Venezuela one jump ahead of the howling mobs. He forgot to take along a suitcase he had packed for the getaway. Beneath the socks, shirts and underwear were bundles of papers-stock certificates, bank-deposit slips, property deeds, and memoranda of commissions squeezed over the years from companies doing business with his government...
...Wonderful"-the best hockey player in the world. They may be right. As skillful as he is bruising, Howe has played more games (1.073) ard scored more points (1,148) than anybody else in hockey history. He holds the lifetime record for assists (with 636), needs to slip the puck into the net just 33 more times to break Maurice ("Rocket") Richard's career mark of 544 goals. He has won the N.H.L. scoring championship five times; nobody else has won it more than twice. He has been voted the most valuable player five times (another record...