Word: findings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old housewife in the emergency room of St. Joseph's Hospital in Syracuse was in deep shock from massive internal bleeding. The problem: to find its source as fast as possible. Italian-born Dr. Goffredo G. Gensini buttonholed a visitor, Radiologist Charles Dotter from the University of Oregon. Dr. Dotter sterilized the G string of a guitar, punctured the main artery in the woman's thigh. then-watching the steel's progress under the fluoroscope-worked it up into the aorta, the body's main artery. When it was close to the heart, he slipped...
...term for top mathematicians), he was close to what his father had wanted him to be, and since then, Rationalist Russell has frequently attacked religion. All the more notable is his conclusion that science can never say what ought to be done. In this view, the reader can find a reproach to the hubris of today's vociferous army of scientist-prophets, notably the late Albert Einstein in the U.S., J.B.S. Haldane in Britain, Joliot-Curie in France...
...there. But many of Russell's judgments might be echoed by the Christian faith, notably his disdain for the existentialism of France's Jean Paul Sartre. "Poetic vagueness and linguistic extravagance," sputters Russell, who sees freedom "in a knowledge of how nature works [whereas] the existentialist finds it in an indulgence of his moods." Russell may or may not be pleased to find the same thought expressed in the Bible...
Peter Piperisms. The national fear of secret diplomacy has become "suspicion of any diplomacy." This, in turn, lies at the core of what Hughes regards as the greatest U.S. diplomatic shortcoming of the past decade, the "evading" of direct negotiations with the Soviet Union. Author Hughes seems to find Soviet diplomatic maneuvers venturesome, flexible and imaginative, however brutal, and American diplomacy uninventive. bumbling and myopic, however decent. He pays ungrudging respect to the Marshall Plan and U.S. intervention in Korea and Lebanon, but he dismisses the concepts of "liberation." "containment" and "massive retaliation" as semantic pacifiers...
...event, when Mr. Eisenhower visits his 13 capitals next month, he will not find the same kind of qualified, experienced diplomat that greeted Mr. Khrushchev on his similar travels a few years ago. The Ugly American may have been the hero of the book, but in the form of the amateur ambassador, he is currently the villain of American diplomacy...