Word: umbrellas
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...research also unearthed some fascinating minutiae: there was only one working toilet in the Colonies - property of a former Royal Governor of Maryland; the na scent sport of golf was played with feather-stuffed leather balls; Boston stores had just begun selling a new gadget called the umbrella...
...group of workers remained conspicuously unprotected: the farm workers. Last week California's Governor Edmund Brown Jr. won initial legislative approval for a bill that would finally give farm workers in one of the nation's richest agricultural states the protective legal umbrella they have long sought...
They made two circular patches only 11/2 inches in diameter, folded them like umbrellas and fitted them into a capsule less than a quarter of an inch in diameter. The capsule was attached to the end of a catheter inside a catheter, which was inserted into a large vein in Suzette Marie's right thigh and worked through a pathway of veins into the heart (see diagram). The doctors then pushed the capsule and outer catheter first into the right atrium and finally into the left atrium, extended the first umbrella and pulled it back against the edges...
King and Mills warn that the 90-minute procedure, which cannot be used in all cases of septal defects, must pass the test of time. But where the umbrella technique is appropriate, they hope it will lessen the complications-and cut the costs-for patients who would otherwise have to undergo open-heart surgery...
...this novel. The universe here is the biggest of all big tops. Mercier and Camier are unwilling clowns in a performance they do not under stand. They are saddled with props - a reluctant umbrella, a sack, a raincoat and a bicycle - and trip helplessly into Alphonse-Gaston stage routines. They are the butt of exquisitely timed mal functions. Their umbrella refuses to open just as the rain, "acting on behalf of the universal malignity," comes down in buckets...