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...some ribs and put them aside, then slit open the heart sac. He was fortunate in being able to see the site of the 1953 shutdown where the left circumflex was embedded in the heart wall. Near the end of the artery he made a slit: instead of a spurt of blood, as there would have been in a healthy subject, he got a mere trickle. Through this slit Dr. Bailey inserted the business end of the curette and gradually worked it up the artery against the direction of the blood flow until its tip was past the point...
Coon and Farnsworth have no ready explanation for the sudden spurt in the number of voluntary appearances at the Clinic. The services it offers have been advertised for years. Farnsworth has noted little resistance among students when the idea they might benefit from a talk with a psychiatrist is suggested. Coon says that his experience in first meeting students is that they are not too uneasy...
...only real interest in the day's event was the battle for the top four places. Reider, weakened by a bad cold, matched strides with the smooth-running Iglesias for the first mile and a quarter, but on the second hill, the Cuban sophomore put on a spurt to pull into a 250 yard lead at the two-mile mark...
...could catch the feel of a place in a single line. To Elizabeth Nowell, his literary agent and the editor of this volume, he described the Midwest as "fat as a hog and so fertile you felt that if you stuck a fork in the earth the juice would spurt." Brooklyn was a "vast sprawl upon the face of the earth, which no man alive or dead has yet seen in its foul, dismal entirety...
...times, of course, with several seas (Red, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean) to fish in, Cousteau's camera can hardly help making a spectacular catch. There are frames that spurt, slumber, dazzle, gloat like stained-glass windows in a sunken cathedral. There is an oozily loathsome shot of the sea squirt, a creature that resembles nothing so much as a length of large intestine on the loose. There is a lot of helling around the coral reefs on submarine scooters that look like sawed-off torpedoes. And there is a hilarious conversation among whales, in which the moviegoer learns an awful...