Word: walls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Abdomen. Healed scar in the right lower abdominal wall from an appendectomy...
...compared with numerous previous films of the heart and lungs dating from 1946, showed no changes in the lungs and no changes in the general configuration or size of the heart. The fluoroscopic examination of the heart showed a normal rate and rhythm. The healed infarction on the anterolateral wall of the left ventricle was again noted and appeared as an area approximately 2.5 centimeters (nearly one inch) in extent in which the amplitude of the pulsations was diminished. There was no evidence of bulging in the scar. Action of the diaphragm and aortic pulsations were normal...
With a soft rustle, the curtains open on the revolution in U.S. sea power. Drawn wide by a briefing officer, they reveal the secret wall maps in the blue-and-gold Pentagon office of the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations. The clock strikes 8 bells-and the Navy's boss, a sea roll to his stride, a faint touch of salt-spray green on the broad gold stripes on his sleeve, barges through the door at 31 knots. This freighter-shaped (5 ft. 11 in., 200 Ibs.) admiral, his ties fast to the old Navy and all its traditions...
...Archbishop Makarios' palace chapel, went to give the doomed pair the Holy Sacraments. Karaolis wrote out his confession on a piece of paper. At 4 a.m. a guard nudged Antonios from a restless couch, led him to a dim room where two plain coffins stood by the wall. Because the British insisted on burial in the prison courtyard, i.e., in unhallowed ground, the Orthodox priest could not hold service. He read briefly from the Bible, then kissed each man on the forehead. They died bravely, he said...
...bodies, says Dr. Hyatt, will help about 75 patients in need of grafts to replace or support their own tissues during the body's self-repair process. While the new material was being freeze-dried (by a half-dozen methods), an attendant made fresh entries on a wall board in Dr. Hyatt's office, to expand the bank's current inventory to: 33 cortical strips, eight infant long bones, four straight pieces of chest artery, 39,354 sq. cm. of skin. The tissue bank will not take material from victims of infectious disease or cancer...