Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...certainly not a miss, but it took work. Before allowing the show to go on the air, Cowan put it through 17 dry runs to smooth out the kinks. But the show is unpredictable anyway, since nobody can foretell what contestants will say, and the timing is uncontrollable. The essence of the show's appeal, Cowan thinks, is "reality." People watch it, he says, like a sports event, because nobody knows what will happen or how it will come out. How long will the "highly profitable" show run? Replies Producer Cowan with a smile: "As long as enough people...
Timorodee Patoo-Patoo. The expedition had smooth sailing until it hit Tierra del Fuego. There, an overzealous scientific party of twelve, bent on collecting hundreds of new botanical specimens, got ambushed by a howling snowstorm and lost two men. The survivors staggered back to the ship after a ration of three mouthfuls of fresh vulture, "each man given his share, raw, to cook as he pleased...
...turned and dove under clouds. One wing caught fire from the machine-gun bursts. The plane later crash-landed on St. Lawrence Island. The landing was smooth as a landing like that can be." The eleven crewmen were soon picked up by Eskimos, and were later flown back to their base in Alaska by U.S. rescue planes."There was no panic at any time," Lieut. Fischer concluded. "The men were laughing and joking-except those in pain from burns...
...sewed up, his body began reacting, building up a thick-walled pouch around the plastic bag. In 30 to 50 days, the pouch had completed the first of three distinct layers of tissue, and at the end of 90 days the smooth muscle tissue that discharges the bladder at will had been formed. Meanwhile, the pouch had adhered to the surrounding body tissues and to the severed ends of the ureters and urethra...
...Strength. The origin of the regenerated tissue posed an interesting question. Some layers were probably the result of the body's normal healing process, and others may have been formed from blood cells; connective tissue undoubtedly was formed from the ureters and urethra. But the appearance of smooth muscle in the pouch was, in the words of the doctors, "more difficult to rationalize" : true regeneration of smooth muscle has been observed only in rare situations, and mostly in animals. After considering several possible sources, doctors could only conclude that the smooth muscle in the new bladder may somehow have...