Word: vessels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...willingly sacrifice myself to prove to the world the horror of this devilish thing," he declared to reporters. Warned that the peace fleet may not sail for lack of funds, Steele replied: "Then I will sail alone into the Christmas Island area. Or perhaps I could get some vessel to drop me on an atoll in the area, where I could sit out the tests and if necessary die in them." Said his wife: "I feel the same as a soldier's wife when the soldier goes away. It has got to be done...
...unilateral declaration deposited with the United Nations Security Council. But in laying out the terms, Nasser made important concessions by pledging himself to: ¶ "Respect the terms and spirit" of the 1888 Constantinople Convention, which provided that the canal "shall always be free and open ... to every vessel of commerce or of war, 'without distinction of flag" (although-as the convention specified ambiguously-Egypt can take any measures necessary for her own defense). ¶ Refer differences of interpretation between Egypt and signers of the Constantinople Convention to the International Court of Justice in The Hague. ¶ Submit complaints about...
...transmitter so small that it can be swallowed for broadcasting from inside the digestive tract (TIME, April 22), medical research-TS and electronics designers have produced a microphone so small that it can be put in the end of a catheter (flexible tube) and worked through a blood vessel right into the heart. Developed by New Jersey's Gulton Industries, Inc., the microphone is one-twentieth of an inch in diameter, three-quarters of an inch long. Dr. Howard L. Moscovitz of Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Hospital has used it to diagnose heart defects-by placing it next...
...cutter, Cushing stole up the Roanoke River at night. The Albemarle's defenders were ready for him: they lit a giant bonfire which illuminated the river and revealed that the ironclad was newly protected against torpedo attack by a boom of logs that surrounded the vessel...
Three dozen or more minor blood vessels had to be tied off to stanch the bleeding. One surgeon would hold a clamp on a blood vessel while another passed the suture silk around it, deftly tying knots. With ribs and breastbone now lying bare, Bailey chose which bones to cut, called "rib shears." A scrub nurse handed him a device like fowl shears with offset handles. With firm pressure of powerful hands. Bailey himself snipped the breastbone...