Word: stoppering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...getting bogged down in his talent-lined rut. He promises in the future to drop "all lushes," but The Scarlet Moving Van is the story of the handsome All-America football star who is so frightened by life that he turns to the jug and throws away the stopper. His Brimmer is another charming lush whose great wastes of emptiness can be filled in only with the help of alcohol and indiscriminate sex. Typically they are men with much in them that is good, and Author Cheever registers their fright and decline with delicate ruefulness and in writing that...
...strong smog-control bill, aimed at smog-choked Los Angeles, requiring that cars in California be fitted with suppressors to cut down on engine hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide. Progress will be slow: first the state has to approve a suppressor design; then motorists have to get the smog-stopper installed...
...southern pine. He proved equally adept at designing commercial structures. A flower-shaped furniture showroom in laminated redwood pulled business right off the highway. His Warm Mineral Springs Inn, sheltered by 75 overlapping concrete shells suggestive of the nearby tourist-touted "Fountain of Youth," was such a successful traffic-stopper that the luxury motel was forced to add an additional wing...
Doctors dread an embolus (from the Greek for a stopper), whether it be a blood clot, a blob of fat, or a bubble of air. An embolus can travel through an artery until it is caught at a narrow point, then shut off circulation to the tissues beyond. But last week two Georgetown University neurosurgeons reported that they had gone to a lot of trouble to make ultramodern emboli in the form of plastic pellets, and had used them to correct a brain defect...
...some speech difficulty. The trouble, Drs. Alfred J. Luessenhop and William T. Spence decided, was that part of the brain, with an abnormal connection between arteries and veins, was getting too much blood from an enlarged artery. So they wanted an embolus to serve as a stopper in this artery...