Word: tunneling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ailed him, even sent him to a fever isolation ward before he ended up in the cardiac clinic of Walter Reed Army Hospital. Because his case was so tricky, the hospital called Presidential Cardiologist Thomas Mattingly for consultation. Colonel Mattingly had the diagnosis in jigtime: a rupture, creating a tunnel between the aorta and the right auricle of the heart...
Such an accident in the heart is extremely rare. Heretofore, it has nearly always proved fatal. Surgeons considered two operations for stitching up the ruptured valve, decided against them as offering no real hope of success. Then a visiting Swede. Dr. Hans Erik Hanson, suggested plugging the tunnel with a plastic sponge shaped like a long-stemmed golf tee. That was in June...
After delivering a dedication address at the New Jersey Turnpike's Holland Tunnel-Newark extension, New Jersey's bachelor Governor Robert B. Meyner, 48, was asked, "Does this road lead to matrimony?" With his pretty guest, Helen Stevenson, a distant cousin of Adlai E. Stevenson, standing a few feet away, Meyner gazed down the broad $120 million turnpike extension and murmured, "I don't see any signs...
...Killed, 194 (139 Republicans, 55 Dem ocrats) to 179 (126 Republicans. 53 Dem ocrats), the Administration-sponsored, Senate-approved $156 million Frying Pan-Arkansas project designed to bring Frying Pan Creek water to drought-stricken southeastern Colorado (in the Arkansas River valley) by tunnel through the Con tinental Divide...
...hints at most movingly in his last and longest tale, The Season of the Dead. It is about the Nazi massacre of east European Jewry. The story is not new, but this is perhaps one of the rare times that a writer of fiction has taken it through the tunnel of horrors into the light...