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...Slitter. As Dr. Thompson describes it, the operation works this way: the heart sac is slit open, then two drams of especially fine talc are spread on the inside of the sac membrane. Fine as it is, the talc acts as an irritant. The sac becomes inflamed and much more blood courses through it; then it adheres to the heart muscle, and its blood-gorged vessels throw out branches into the muscle. These branches increase the muscle's blood supply and, hence, its power to keep the heart beating...
...Slit Trenches & Antiaircraft. As soon as the evacuation rehearsal was finished, platoons of U.S. "aggressor" troops began making simulated attacks on the runways at Fairbanks. Every mechanic, clerk and mess sergeant was called for a three-day defense of the field. The commissary was closed tight and the families who had only pretended to evacuate actually began to run low on food. Last week similar mock battles were being fought at other bases...
...Slit trenches and new antiaircraft batteries were appearing at many an Alaskan airfield. The Air Force was about to put a dozen men adrift on the ice, 200 miles north of Point Barrow, and leave them there for two months to study the tricks of keeping alive after bailing...
Like millions of other civilians-turned-soldiers, Ben Isaacs became hardened to combat and began to pull his weight. But his ingrown, slit-focus view of life kept him on sour emotional rations. Face of a Hero is less a novel than a first-person recital of discontent: Ben's buddies didn't know what they were fighting for, the B-24s weren't fit to fly, some of the officers were deadweights, the G.I.s behaved crudely with Italian civilians, the Red Cross girls dated officers only...
...worst news an Indianapolis driver could hear. Handsome, 31-year-old Driver Parsons had placed second in the big race last year, and his Wynn's Special, with its new high-compression (13 to 1) Meyer-Drake Offenhauser engine, had performed beautifully during the tryouts. Now the threadlike slit in the engine block threatened to crack his hopes wide-open. But heavy-footed Johnnie Parsons had no thought of withdrawing on that account...