Word: wigan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smarter than ordinary people. The shabby prestige of working in an office--no matter how near the bottom or how repetitive the job--still exerts attraction that no "objective" economic analysis can explain. In trying to be hopeful, Smith makes the same mistake as Orwell in "The Road to Wigan Pier": the status-oriented students and white collar workers have far more to lose than their aitches...
Charnley, a surgeon at England's Wrightington Hospital in Wigan, was not the first physician to replace part of the hip's ball-and-socket joint. Doctors had long been substituting a stainless-steel ball for the head of the femur, or thighbone. But even after the introduction of better bone cements eliminated one problem-the tendency of the new head to work loose-the results of the operation were often unsatisfactory. Because body fluids provided inadequate lubrication and even corroded the implants, friction between the ball and its socket caused both to wear...