Word: snip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...star -turned -government-official Arari Charbel Rios, 28. Rather than remove Rios' failing pancreas, Teixeira simply stitched the new organ, donated by a heart-attack victim, to his patient's duodenum-snugly against the old one. At the first sign of rejection, says Teixeira, he will simply snip the implant out and Rios will be back where he started-on insulin...
BRECHT: But none the less Heinrich, lieber Heinrich it is an honor when they do your work, wherever, whenever. As for however, why that McBain youth meant no harm in adapting your Master Builder. He only meant, no doubt, to give the idiom a more modern ring, and to snip away that overgrowth of symbols. There are such a lot of symbols in the play, Heinrich...
...Snip, Snip. It is typical of both the varied splendors of the Walters and the casualness with which they are kept that the show marks the first time that a complete catalogue of the museum's 215 enamels has been prepared. The task was completed with the aid of a $12,500 Ford Foundation grant-and a dozen more catalogues are needed. Many experts believe that the Walters has one of the top ten all-round public collections in the country, but nobody knows for sure. The museum has shown so many superlative examples of work from the classical...
Seizing his scissors, Cardin fashioned another, chestier paper jacket, put it on the evening jet from Paris to Nice, whence it was whisked by helicopter to Janis mere moments before the performance. Pausing only to snip off some excess sleeve, Janis donned the coat and played his concert to pandemonious applause. And why a paper dinner jacket in the first place? Well, in the first place it's pretty chic; and-uh-Janis works up quite a sweat...
...Gould saw the polyp. It was a bit bigger (4 mm. by 5 mm.) than he had expected, and a bit lower down. Still, it was a simple though delicate procedure to work his cupped forceps around so that he got almost all of the polyp at one snip. Two more snips removed tiny bits from its edges, where it had been attached to the vocal cord...