Word: stitch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Printers hit back with a 14 run eighth inning, blasting the unfortunate Siggel from the box. "Too bad," revealed Bruce Paisner, who had taken time off from his duties as an Executive to manage his inept team. Leading the Printer's attack was "Stitch" Penkul, who was hit by an incredible series of pitched balls every time he was up, getting 7 walks and 10 stolen bases...
...individuality." Three centuries later, Charles Claude Guthrie and Alexis Carrel learned the wisdom of this judgment. With great virtuosity, they proved that organ grafts between animals were surgically possible. Guthrie even succeeded in grafting a second head onto a dog; more constructively, he and Carrel learned how to stitch together the ends of small, slippery blood vessels so that they would neither leak nor become clogged by clots. But for all their dexterity, the scientists did not solve the problem of getting organ grafts between two individuals to take...
...smoothly multilingual salesmen overseas seek to sell ingots to local fabricators-which are often Aluminium subsidiaries with local shareholders, directors and managers. "We can't run our foreign operating companies from Montreal," says President Davis, who jets around the world two or three times a year to help stitch together the loose empire...
...controlling the muscles. Neurosurgeons usually prefer to wait for weeks or months after the original operation before they attempt the job. The M.G.H. surgeons identified the three main nerve bundles in Ev Knowles's shoulder and arm, drew them together, and rejoined each with a single dacron stitch-a holding operation so that the nerves will not shrink...
...dressmaker's dummy that has all of her dimensions. To this dummy, whenever the call comes through, flock busy seamstresses with costly fabrics and a sense of dedication and flair that is not often seen, say, at quilting bees. They fit and they pin, they cut and they stitch, and when they are all finished, the result gets its picture in the papers, filled out this time by Jackie herself...