Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...circle when the target is a rectangle only 1 in. by 1½ in. To keep the X rays from fanning out, they must be "collimated"-made to follow parallel paths. In their machine, the Nashville dentists use a stainless-steel plate with a rectangular window to accomplish collimation; they also use much more shielding and a steel bracket to hold the film just where it ought to be, without subjecting the patient's hand to radiation. The result, according to PHS tests, is a radiation dose delivered to the skin only one-half to one-fourth that from...
...camel-hide hassock, the bouquet of used plastic flowers, and the two secondhand bedspreads were quickly snapped up. At week's end, only an exercise machine and a leather suitcase remained in the window of Jeanette Varoutsos' Memorial Shop for Blood
...statement is made in a parable about a potter who is happy making pots. All day long the wheel turns and the plant on the window sill sings like a bird. Then one day the door to the potters shop bursts open and a vast impersonal Hand walks in. It smashes the potter's pots and arrogantly commands him to reshape them in the image of the Hand. When the potter refuses, it plies him with presents. When he continues to refuse, it threatens him with death. Finally it ties strings to his head and hands and turns...
...time the show reached Boston, Holly had become a nice young thing who might just shack up with anybody for nothing. Worse, Michael Kidd's choreography was more kitsch than kick, while the songs of Bob Merrill scarcely topped the success of his 1953 hit, Doggie in the Window. Holly, wrote Boston Globe Critic Kevin Kelly, was "a multiset disaster, a straightforward musical flop...
Plea for Flexibility. Volkswagen is also puzzled over how to design an impact-absorbing steering column for its boxy Microbus, since the column is nearly vertical. One especially irksome item is a rear-window defroster. France's Renault complains that such a device would be "superfluous," since an outside mirror does the job adequately. An impossibility in many very small cars, such as Britain's Mini-Minor, is a requirement to have the front seat set back far enough so that in a collision passengers' heads will not snap down to the dashboard. One solution: shoulder...