Word: threading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through the prattle of the gossip columnists, those past masters (and mistresses) of opacity, ran a mysterious thread...
Thus it will seem to an American audience that he relies too heavily on his readers' assumed sympathy as his binding thread. He will confirm, but he will not convince. (It is worth remembering, however, that he is writing in an English journal, for an audience that is more skeptical of civil defence than Americans appear to be, and certainly less informed about this country's shelter-craze.) Nonetheless, "The Illusion of Civil Defence" is a particularly interesting, particularly disappointing instance of what seems to happen to almost anyone who tires to speak intelligently on the subject. Piel's article...
...image of Fate in the forest, a ghost-pale crone who sits like a Norn at her spinning wheel, spinning the thread of life and croaking prophecies that fly out of her tomb-dark throat like bats...
...described by Dr. White, a tiny electrode is inserted into each frontal lobe of the brain with the patient under general anesthesia. Once in place the electrode tips lie in the "inferior medial" white matter of the lobe, with the thread-thin wires, insulated by lacquer and fine teflon tubing, projecting through the scalp. When the electrodes are attached to the high-frequency electrical current, Dr. White explained, lesions, formed by coagulation of tissue, are created in the area. The process takes from five to 10 seconds. Additional lesions are created at intervals of several days by withdrawing the electrodes...
...latest of scarcities under Castro. One by one, the abundant supplies of fish, pork, vegetables, rice, wheat, eggs, such consumer staples as razor blades, toilet paper and soap have disappeared from the shelves. Last month, to fight black-marketing, the government ordered that 15 articles-among them toothpaste, thread, and nursing nipples-would be sold henceforth only in government-designated stores. But what Castro cannot do by fiat is to end his own mismanagement, which has crippled Cuba's economy, or to overcome the stiff U.S. trade embargo, which makes matters very much worse...