Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Nikita Khrushchev may have concluded that between now and November U.S. policy will be paralyzed and he would have a good opportunity to create a new crisis over Berlin. The meetings of Europe's Big Three were deliberately calculated to indicate to Khrushchev that there is no vacuum in Western policy despite U.S. elections, that the West is keeping a vigilant eye on Berlin and the West's concerns...
...AGAINST RED OIL will be waged by Western oil companies to prevent Russian crude from entering their markets. Three companies (Shell, Standard Vacuum, Caltex) told India they will not refine Russian crude oil sold to Indian government. Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) warned owners and tanker brokers, in effect, it will not do business now or in future with anybody who charters or sells tankers to the Soviet Union or its satellites...
...elapsed before it was generally adopted. Now, a new and supposedly less hazardous method has been devised to ease some slow and possibly dangerous births, but medical controversy in the English-speaking world may delay its widespread use. It consists of pulling the baby out by means of a vacuum-suction cup attached to the top of its skull...
...idea dates back to an English surgeon, James Yonge, who advanced it in 1706. Little was done to put it into practice until after World War II, when sev eral European researchers developed vacuum extractors, all based essentially on the ancient suction cup or ventouse (used for every imaginable ailment). Many obstetricians around the world now use the device freely. Yet it has won preliminary public approval from only one research team in Britain...
Avoid a Caesarean? In the U.S., only at New York City's Kings County Hospital has the vacuum extractor received extensive trial. Dr. Vincent Tricomi and colleagues have used it in 125 births since last September. Keenly aware of the suspicious attitude of the profession generally, they have been even more conservative than the British in selection of cases. But they have seen no ill effects, and believe the vacuum cup may save many mothers from difficult and dangerous forceps deliveries, or the alternative of a caesar-ean.* On results to date, the Brooklyn doctors are "cautiously enthusiastic...