Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cheap, simple meter to measure blood flow directly. It was made by Dr. Henry H. Swain of the University of Michigan from the pinion gear of a discarded alarm clock, stiff wire, rubber tubing, glass bulbs. The tube is inserted directly into an artery. Blood passes through the tube, moves a pen that records on a graph any changes in the blood flow. Cost...
...aspidistra is a hardy house plant with stiff, glossy leaves, long a homely windowsill badge of respectability in lower-middle-class British homes, and celebrated in song by Music Hall Diva Gracie Fields (The Biggest Aspidistra in the World...
Experts expect Carol Heiss of New York, runner-up in last year's world championship to give Miss Albright stiff competition in the free figures, but the Radcliffe junior's superiority in the compulsory school events seemed likely to bring her the title. Miss Albright, who lost the crown in 1952 when she fell late in the competition, said before leaving the United States that she also anticipated a very strong bid from Catherine Machado. the third United States entry...
...hockey team faces stiff competition in the round robin tournament deciding the gold medal winner. Canada, which has won the past five gold medals, rates as the favorite, along with a powerful Russian squad, which is entered for the first time...
...unflinching as the waters closed over his beard. It was, of course, a British spoof of the proud Royal Navy, whose tradition of impenetrable reticence earned it the name "Silent Service." Now that the U.S. has become the world's greatest naval power, a certain relaxation of the stiff upper lip is in order. In overstated understatement, H.M.S. Ulysses is trying to show that the Royal Navy had a royal and rugged time of it in World War II-and that anything the U.S. Navy can do, the Royal Navy can do better. Specifically mutinies...