Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paned windows resistant to radiation as the machine churned up its million-volt charge, sent a stream of X rays into the cancerous portion of Dulles' abdomen for a full minute. Because Dulles was not nauseated, the doctors rated the treatment "well tolerated," agreed that if he could stand it, he would get up to five minutes' radiation every day except Sunday for the next three to four weeks...
...another careful choice of terms last week, Vice President Nixon called for conservatism without "stand-pattism." Said Nixon to a Los Angeles Republican luncheon: "I don't think we could make a greater mistake than to say that because some people don't like being called conservative the Republican Party should stop being conservative. We should be proud of what we believe...
...mask is made of flexible polyvinyl plastic. Inside it is a disposable filter of cotton and cellulose. In this trap the surgeon's breath is both dried and filtered; the exhaled air escapes backward from the mask's wings, is almost germfree. The new mask, built to stand away from the skin, is cooler than the close-fitting, clammy gauze. And although the plastic part costs $1.50, it should save hospitals money in the long run because it can be sterilized and reused for years. The filter inserts cost only 1?, as against 18? for the throwaway gauze...
...human kidney is a filter capable of such fine chemical discrimination that no machine yet visualized can come near matching it. But with uncommon ingenuity and commonplace materials, researchers have produced an effective stand-in which does its most obvious and important jobs. Head and shoulders above other kidney makers is tall, tart Willem Johan Kolff, 48, of the Cleveland Clinic. Physician Kolff made his gadgeteering breakthrough in his native Netherlands during the Nazi occupation...
Sources close to the British delegation said Macmillan his abandoned hope of bringing East and West closer together on the Berlin crisis in view of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's uncompromising stand...