Word: viscera
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...material in a bazooka projectile. The products of the slow explosion would have to stream out in one direction, giving a powerful, sustained push in the opposite direction. The obstacles blocking either approach were admittedly enormous. "Even contemplating the problems," said an Air Forces spokesman last week, "makes the viscera of some of us refuse to function...
What was happening in Iowa City said one critic, should not happen even in a Manhattan museum. The State University had put on a summer show of 160 modern pictures, and there was not one old-fashioned landscape in the lot. Instead there were angular moderns, surrealist viscera and patterned streaks and splotches...
World War II (European division) is already more distinct than it was while it was going on. It fell into three stages, each distinguished by the sensations in men's viscera...
...show on view last week in Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library. Its 162 meticulous, gruesome pictures represented the work of about half of the nation's 50 professional medical artists. There was a portrait of an 89-pound tumor shortly after removal, a thorax without any viscera, a woman being skin-grafted after removal of her breast...
Progress in Surgery. Radical splanchnicectomy (removal of long segments of the nerves which serve the viscera) is a lifesaver for certain types of high-blood-pressure patients. Dr. Reginald Smithwick of Boston has now perfected the technique so that deaths from the operation are rare. Some of his patients are in normal health six years after operation...