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Word: tweezers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...genuine heart attack victim can usually speak. Backslapping is a waste of time, unless the victim is upside down, and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation is like "trying to pour water into a corked bottle." The food must be retrieved-with fingers or, if necessary, with a pair of tweezers. After a year of testing in Florida, Eller and Haugen now recommend that a 9-in. plastic tweezer-like device called Choke Saver be kept at the ready in every restaurant. It has already been used by a city first-aid unit in Jacksonville, Fla., to save the lives of three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Death at Dinner | 10/22/1973 | See Source »

...curls carefully before entering a ballroom. Margaret Leighton, full of delicate malice, is superb as William's mother. "Your wife is a mass of nothing, Willie," she announces to her son, as if she had just concluded an elementary scientific investigation with a magnifying glass and a tweezer. Not a completely unfair appraisal of the movie, either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rack of Lamb | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

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