Word: sliver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Visiting Privileges. Perhaps the ultimate place is Fire Island, that swinging, 33-mile-long sliver off Long Island's southern shore. Denizens of such communities as Ocean Beach, Robin's Rest, Ocean Bay Park and Davis Park have established such a free and easy way of life that they have had to invent a new language to describe it. GROUPERS are not fish, but young people who have pooled their assets to rent a house together for the season. There are BOY HOUSES and GIRL HOUSES but the MIXED HOUSE is fast becoming the most popular arrangement. Seasoned...
Maria! dusts off a sliver of plot about a team of carnival song-and-dance girls, both named Maria, touring the fleshpots of a mythical Central American republic in 1907. Enhancing a collection of dazzling period costumes, they inspire lust-and frequently satisfy it-from stop to stop. They invent the striptease, seizing with girlish delight upon a gaping seam and a stubborn snap as though the benefits to mankind might rival the discovery of radium. Finally, they fall jointly in love with a doomed revolutionary (George Hamilton) and continue to inflame the peasantry in his name. As Maria...
Doctors in Washington last week made surgical history when they slipped an ingenious and incredibly small ultra sound probe inside a patient's eyeball for the first time and located a sliver of brass. Once found, the sliver was instantly removed, and James Cassiday, 11, was assured that he will regain substantial vision in his damaged left...
...vitreous body" that fills most of the eyeball and searched. When the oscilloscope showed that he was within a millimeter of the foreign body, Dr. Bronson closed the minuscule forceps attached to the probe. His aim was perfect. The forceps grasped the object, and Dr. Bronson carefully extracted a sliver of brass, ¼-inch long and 3/16-inch wide. Though the whole operation on Jimmy's eye took an hour and a half, the actual location of the sliver and its removal took only 39 seconds...
Invented by Emmanuel Mitchell Trikilis, a self-taught Columbus engineer, the "Sentronic" book detector works on the ancient principle of magnetism. A sliver of magnetized metal is hidden somewhere in a book's spine or binding, and the librarian who checks the book out simply demagnetizes the metal insert by passing the book through a coil carrying an electric current. If a thief bolts for the exit instead of the check-out desk, the magnetized metal inside his book is detected by an instrument that trips a solenoid hidden at the door; the turnstile is automatically locked...