Word: thorax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expansive ground floor of Paris' Musée National d'Art Moderne looked like a specter-haunted landscape from Mars. Birdmen, ten inches tall, made up of a human thorax, bare-boned ribs and a spinal column topped by oversized beak and reptilian eyes, stared back at the spectators. A human-size Praying Mantis in female form crouched ready to spring; a Shepherd with half-decayed body tottering on three spindle legs looked more like an abandoned sheep carcass than a human figure. The reason for this nightmare in Paris last week: 82 pieces finished in the last...
...muscle tissue worked on by the research pair came from the thorax of the common fruit fly, the insect used most frequently by experimenters in the field of genetics...
...Life story included a step-by-step account of Williams' discovery of the two hormone-producing centers which collaborate to trigger the phenomenon of metamorphosis. Williams found the interdependent centers in the brain and the thorax of the moth...
...double roles. After an hour or so of general mayhem in alleys, bars, cheap hotels, and black sedans, the Law finally closes in with the aid of several cagy scientific gimmicks and the Villain gets it in the back. The only revelation here is on someone's heaving thorax, but "The Mob" is still good entertainment...
...dilute solution of various sugars. Bees put it in uncapped comb-cells, evaporate it to honey by fanning it with their wings. If it contains too much sucrose (cane sugar), which would make it tend to crystallize, the bees add an enzyme (invertase) from glands under their thorax. Thus the sucrose is turned into levulose and dextrose, which taste almost as sweet...