Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announced Radio Moscow, "with the interrogation of the accused Daniel. At the beginning of the interrogation, he impudently denies the obvious. But then, when the prosecution presents to the court a number of proofs, fright and confusion appear on his slanderous face. Yes, he is being pressed against the wall. Under the weight of the proof, Daniel is forced to admit facts of his criminal activity...
STANDING somewhere between Nostradamus and a Wall Street broker, the President of the U.S. each year draws up a federal budget-essentially a forecast of events as they are expected to occur as much as 18 months hence. The law requires him to perform this task, but there is no law that says he has to stick to his budget. This extraordinary leverage over the public purse has been gradually wrested from Congress, which over the years has ceded its once jealously held fiscal powers to the White House. Today, the President does not consider the budget just a report...
...correcting the more diffuse type of coronary disease, most cardiac surgeons base their work on a technique first used in 1950 by Montreal's pioneering Dr. Arthur M. Vine-berg. The left internal mammary artery, which is not very important in man, is implanted in the heart wall so that its blood flow may reinforce the coronaries. One internal mammary is big enough to carry an adequate blood supply for the entire left ventricle (the heart's main pumping chamber), and if the blood still does not reach all the starved areas, the right mammary artery...
...Walton Lillelehi's team from the University of Minnesota described a similar technique, using part of the network of veins from the patient's own thigh. The trunk vein is sewn into the aorta, and the branches are set in tunnels in the heart-wall muscle-tunnels through which a surgical knife has been run, deliberately cutting several small, transverse arteries, to open them up so that they can receive the new blood supply. Ten of these patients, said Dr. Randolph M. Ferlic, who suffered from crippling angina even when they were sitting down and not exerting themselves...
...result of this combination was a tense 35-minute fifth game, with Howe taking a 10-minute break to massage a cramped leg at 14-12 for Niederhoffer. Howe resumed play, only to be aced on a hard serve which nicked off the back wall...