Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...avoid rush-hour tie-ups on the Potomac River bridges, they boarded a Marine Corps helicopter on the White House south lawn in Ike's first such use of a whirlybird. They touched down 3½ minutes later at National Airport. On the flight out, Columbine Pilot Lieut. Colonel William Thomas learned that the Kansas City Municipal Airport was fogged in, instead put down at the Naval Air Station in Olathe, Kans. Startled Navy officials hastily assembled a motorcade of staff cars, managed to get the President and Milton into a Navy Chevrolet for the 27-mile ride into...
...armies, was condemned to death in absentia. Three years ago he surrendered voluntarily to stand trial for treason. This time the High Court judges were calm, judicially correct members of the French Parliament. Charged with negotiating a German mission in Dakar, and with trying to get German arms for use against the Maquis, Guérard, now 60, declared that it was all a double game to fool the Germans. His espousal of the occupation in a 1943 lecture, he testified urbanely, was "merely a defense of the European idea...
...Last week the Upjohn Co. (which markets the drug as Orinase) decided to lay on the line just what it will and will not do. To its Kalamazoo headquarters Upjohn invited 500 physicians to hear reports from Germany's Dr. Ernst Pfeiffer, one of the first investigators to use the drug, and from Chicago's Dr. Rachmiel Levine, one of the world's top researchers into the mysteries of sugar metabolism...
...Complete heart block," a disruption of the electrical impulses flowing over the heart, is a danger for 10% to 25% of patients, although the operation itself may have been successful. Pacemakers working through electrodes attached outside the body require too strong a current for continuous use. Better, said Dr. Lillehei, to attach one electrode to the heart at the time of operation, lead the wire out through the chest incision (the second electrode can still be placed just under the skin), and keep the pacemaker working until the danger is past. The wire then comes out as easily...
...Inside, Inland's new building makes widespread use of art-both paintings (the industrial scene by modern artists) and sculpture (stressing the use of steel under tension). "Of course, the most important thing is the sale of steel," said Art Collector Block. "But on the other hand, we believe that painting and sculpture belong in a modern office building to enhance its beauty...