Word: stoppered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even in Hollywood, the glittering new green & gold Cadillac of a young man named Nick Spanos caused pedestrians to stare. But the real eye-stopper was the photostat of a check which Spanos proudly showed friends as he drove about. The amount: $1,333,605.22. Lawyer Spanos, 33, had collected it for a client from Cinemogul Spyros P. Skouras' famed 20th Century-Fox and eight other movie companies, after winning one of the biggest legal awards in Hollywood's history...
Bottleneck Stopper. One of the chief bottlenecks of aircraft production, the making of turbine blades for jet engines, may be solved by a new machine developed by England's Omes, Ltd. Already in operation at the Utica (N.Y.) Drop Forge & Tool Corp., the machine precision-forges blades in half the time and at half the cost of present methods. Price...
...enlarged the opening of its mitral valve. They anchored a small (½-in.) lucite ball on a steel suture just below the flaps of the valve. The plastic ball can move just enough to allow blood to drain downward into the ventricle. It moves up to act as a stopper in the mitral valve when the heart contracts to pump blood into the aorta...
Visits to "grand houses," where a valet would unpack his luggage, made Chesterton uneasy. Neither he nor the valet could ever be sure what would turn up in his bags and pockets-a green glass bottle stopper and a horse pistol on one occasion; on another, "several stubs of pencil, a paperbacked murder story, some colored chalks, and a small cigar or two." Nor did anyone know what he would bring to a lecture: a Dutch audience that flocked to hear him talk on Dickens went away much enlightened on the subject of Browning...
...door. The room's occupants opened the door, and after a short greeting, stared in amazement as the gentleman pushed a trunk toward the bedroom, climbed on top of it, and ran his hand along the top of the bedroom door. He found what he wanted, a wooden stopper plugging a ten inch hole. The room's occupants helped their visitor take the door off its hinges, and with a corkscrew they removed the plug. Inside, they found a parchment tied up in an orange ribbon...