Word: stitches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first surgeons to operate behind a screen of sheets soaked in carbolic acid in an effort to achieve sterile conditions, one of the first to use drip infusions (such as sugar and salt solutions) into veins. And he invented a daring operation to open and then stitch together an artery which had developed an aneurysm (like a blister on an inner tube). When Matas retired at 67, the trustees imported Ochsner from South Dakota (by way of St. Louis, Zurich, Chicago and Milwaukee); this time there was no home-grown crown prince...
German, who scored three goals and an assist in the Friar's only victory this season against Williams, was sidelined last Friday with a seven-stitch cut he received in a game against Princeton. P.C.'s coach, Dick Random, said last night that it had not yet been decided whether or not German would be able to play tonight...
...performed, as it should be, on the split instant. St. Thérèse of Lisieux (1873-1897), the "Little Flower," once advised a novice: "When someone knocks at your door, or when you are called, you must practice mortification and refrain from doing even one additional stitch before answering. I have practiced this myself, and I assure you that it is a source of much peace...
...Denton Cooley in Miami. He and his colleagues advise against immediate operation under emergency conditions. Doctors should first try to resuscitate the patient by draining blood from the heart sac and giving transfusions to counteract shock. Only if this is not quickly effective should they open the chest to stitch up the heart, for it is in this drastic operation, which often has to be performed hurriedly and under non-sterile conditions, that most deaths occur...
...next three days, Dennett stuck to his knitting as he sat through the hearings. Then he changed his mind, went back on the witness stand and, without dropping a stitch, admitted that he had indeed been a Communist...