Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...behind the gun was Georgetown University's Neurosurgeon John P. Gallagher, who wanted a safe way to treat aneurysms in the brain. Aneurysms are like blisters in tubeless tires: at a weak spot in its wall, an artery balloons out. The stretched wall is so thin that any rise in blood pressure caused by excitement or strain may burst it. Occasionally and unpredictably, the break is self-sealing and the scar may make the artery wall stronger than before, but more often a fatal flood of blood is spilled into the brain cavity. Usually, the aneurysm first develops...
...hair, though thin, had to be stiff. Dr. Gallagher tried hair from the heads of Orientals. No good. He tried coarse eyebrow hairs. Not much better. Then he found that hog's hair was scaly enough to cause clotting, and stiff enough to be fired from the gun. So is hair from a horse's tail...
Quarterback Mike Bassett and his friends went to work. Calling his plays with precision, Bassett directed Grana, Scott Harshbarger, Bill Taylor, and himself into the thin Lehigh line for large chunks of yardage. A pass to Taylor added 16 yards, and a Lehigh personal foul penalty put the ball...
Lehigh is a little thin for this game (with only 31 players available for duty), but is basically the same squad that stunned stumbling and fumbling Harvard last year...
Many of those who have rented apartments for as much as $100 a room and up in Manhattan's shiniest new apartment buildings have gained in gadgets-built-in air conditioning, modern kitchens, washers and dryers-but they have lost elsewhere. Walls are often paper-thin, floors sag, fireplaces are nonexistent, ceilings low and rents high...