Word: strand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thick, hollow needle (under local anesthetic) into the femoral artery. Through the needle the diagnostician passes a flexible steel spring, like a plumber's snake (or like the bass strings of pianos and guitars). The needle is soon withdrawn. Inside the steel spring is a single-strand steel wire for stiffening. As in the Syracuse housewife's case, polyethylene tubing is slipped over the steel spring. But in her case, the doctors did not go beyond the aorta. Now they go around the aorta's arch (see diagram) to its end at the aortic valve-the blood...
...took it upon itself to survey some of the city's monumental figures and their various states of inundation. William Ewart Gladstone: "The melancholy truth is that [he] does not stand close scrutiny these days. His bared head has been made indecently white by the birds of the Strand." Booze-hating Sir Wilfrid Lawson: "The pigeons have dealt most unkindly [with him]." Poet Robert Burns: "[His] slight defacement merely has the effect of giving him a tearful left eye." The situation in Parliament Square: "Disraeli, Peel and Derby, with the treetops above them, suffer more than Palmerston and Smuts...
...language edition of Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago in the Western Hemisphere and sold an amazing 15,000 copies, is following this week with a collection of Pasternak's poems in English that is likely to sell even better. Says Publisher Wieck: "There isn't a strand of ivy on our building...
...five Sloan Scholars are Dwight M. Bissell, David E. Crandall, Frank N. Newman, John F. Schivell, and Vernon F. Strand. All of the award winners plan to concentrate in science or engineering fields...
...different types and sizes as the fanciful British mind could devise. There are fused plugs and unfused plugs, plugs with two prongs and plugs with three prongs, with round prongs and square prongs. There are plugs the size of kumquats, walnuts, pingpong balls and lemons. Some appliances have three-strand wire, some two. The voltage may be either 210, 220 or 240-or in a few areas, 110. When an American visitor tries to use a transformer to make a 110-voltage U.S. appliance work in a 220-volt British house, he finds he has been cunningly outwitted: Britain uses...