Word: spined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours while surgeons put in a new bit of vital plumbing donated by a man recently dead. Another surgical feat, less dramatic but equally remarkable in its own way, was performed on a pretty teen-ager who, without knowing it, was becoming deformed by a curvature of the spine. For a progress report on both patients see MEDICINE, The Heart That Stopped, and The Role of the Turtle...
...trouble with Margie was scoliosis, a sidewise curvature of the spine. As in 80% to 90% of cases, no cause for her condition could be found, and nobody knew when the trouble began. Neither Margie nor her mother had noticed it, and, like most victims, she had begun to compensate for it by shifting her body to achieve a comfortable balance...
...cast was hinged in the middle. Joining the halves on the left, and spanning the spinal curvature, was a turnbuckle. Every day or two the doctors extended the turnbuckle by a couple of turns. As it was lengthened, it flattened and almost erased the curve. But unaided, the spine would not be able to maintain its restored straightness...
...philosophy was always animated by the same abhorrence of waste that made him a successful publisher. Though he suffered from diabetes for 33 years, Frank Gannett did not slow perceptibly until 1948, when he had a stroke. Bouncing back, he ran his empire until 1955, when he fractured his spine in a fall. Management and the presidency of the Gannett group has since gone into the hands of able, Gannett-groomed Paul Miller, 51, onetime Washington bureau chief for the Associated Press, who believes as firmly as F.E.G. in giving his editors free rein...
...wartime injury had required a spinal operation, but the bones were not set properly. In 1954 his back began giving trouble, and by fall he was hobbling about on crutches. In October he entered Manhattan's Hospital for Special Surgery, where a metal plate was set into his spine. Twice in three months, his condition was so grave that his family was called to his bedside. Just before Christmas, he had recovered to the extent of flying, supine on a stretcher, to his father's Palm Beach home-where, to cure black moods of depression, he began writing...