Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...given Dr. Kessler ample opportunity to see the differences. The vast majority of patients whose native language is not English, he finds, form the sounds of n, l, t, d, s and z with the tip of the tongue placed near to or against the back of the upper front teeth. No matter what a dentist does in fitting new plates, he is unlikely to interfere with this process. But patients with English as their native language hold the tongue higher - against the alveolar ridge just behind the base of the upper front teeth - to make the same sounds...
...Kessler's prescription: dentists fitting upper plates should make tape recordings of their patients' speech before, during and after fitting. And they should be sure to leave plenty of room for the English-speaking tongue to move...
...wake of the record boom has come a spate of new calypso nightclubs, or old nightclubs in calypso dress, most of them in the East. In upper Manhattan a saloonkeeper from County Cork recently had his ceiling strung with fishnet, his mirrors adorned with palm fronds, and proudly announced the conversion of the back room into the Ekim Calypso Dock. Mid-Manhattan's Le Cupidon closed down when calypso became popular, re-draped itself in hammock and palms and reopened two months ago as a calypso club with a Bahamian trio, two steel drummers. It has since added...
Plastic Lung. To the surgeon the heart is the center of a familiar but complex machine (see diagram). Used blood, from which all the body's tissues have removed nourishing oxygen, returns through the two great veins (superior and inferior vena cava) to the right upper chamber (auricle). It empties from there through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle. This muscular chamber contracts and pushes the blood through the pulmonary valve and pulmonary artery to the lungs to pick up fresh oxygen. Reddened blood returns to the left auricle, passes through the mitral valve into the left ventricle...
...heart bed, drew out the spilled blood. With fine team coordination, Bailey made a small cut in the auricle wall; one assistant slid a plastic tube through it into the lower great vein, and another drew the purse string tight to check bleeding. Another cut, another tube, for the upper great vein. A third tube, through the side of the subclavian artery into the aorta...