Word: vein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artery in the father's thigh, led the freshly oxygenated blood to a pump which boosted it on its way to a tube set into an artery in Gregory's chest. After it had coursed through his system, the blood flowed out from one of the great veins near the heart through more tubes and pumps into a vein in the father's thigh. Its passage through his heart and lungs completed the circuit...
...become unpopular both to a large share of its semi-captive audience and some of the principles involved. A growing sentiment, represented by Senator McCarthy when he called it "a fight over a private in the Army," teamed with his frequent allusions to "razors near America's jugular vein" have resulted in considerable pressure to cut short the hearings...
...concluding selection, Beethoven's Septet in E-Flat, represents its creator in his wittiest and most lyrical vein. While retaining features of the older divertimento (especially in the prominent violin part), it also looks forward to the work of later composers--Mendelssohn must have known the scherzo well. Despite a few lapses in intonation, the performers gave all the energy and sparkle the septet demands, and it brought an appropriately enthusiastic response from the audience...
...pulmoťor type of respirator and slip a transfusion needle into an arm or leg artery. Then, pumping toward the heart, they give blood that has been generously spiked with adrenalin and glucose. Heart action is generally revived in less than a minute. Blood is then transfused by vein. Restoration of breathing may take as long as 18 minutes. Only after this are the higher nervous centers revived, with the body functions that they control. If the process is too prolonged, some brain centers never recover...
...Marie in Cinemascope, I was amazed at the acoustics in that fabulous country, wide angled on the screen as never before." Possibly MGM never thought thought about the outdoor acoustics, so they would be glad to have one more feather in their bonnet. Another good one in the same vein is, "The unparalled, unexpected thrill of Rose Marie in Eastman Color can only be matched by seeing if nature's coloring in Canada is really that...