Word: insertion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Navy Outcry. When Wilson got home, he discovered that the chips were flying in the corridors and outer-ring offices of the Pentagon. One of his principal organizational recommendations-which he persuaded the Rockefeller committee to insert in the Defense Department reorganization plan-involved straightening out lines of authority in the Joint Chiefs of Staff. To date, the Joint Chiefs have operated like a loose federation, capable of interservice horse-trading, but seldom of clear-cut decision. Wilson bought the plea of retiring JCS Chairman Omar Bradley for additional authority for the chairman. This touched off a Navy outcry...
...Within minutes, his thyroid and parathyroids were removed, with about an inch of each of the four main blood vessels attached. The operating room was got ready for Irma Miller, and, as soon as she arrived for an injection, she was whisked to the table. The surgeons decided to insert the baby's thyroid in her groin (instead of its usual place in the neck), because the blood vessels are the right size and the site is protected from accidental pressure. They cut four of her blood vessels, and stitched the ends to the stubs of the gland...
...bill to insert the words "under God" in the U.S. pledge of allegiance to the flag was introduced in the House of Representatives last week by Democratic Congressman Louis C. Rabaut of Michigan. Congressman Rabaut's amended pledge would read: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." "Our country was born under God," said Rabaut, "and only [under God] will it live as a citadel of freedom...
...Bragg's skinny little boy Nelson" is master of ceremonies and his flunky Uncle Everett is the jockey. He introduces numbers in an indefinable dialect, inevitably ending with, "Thanks just a whole lot, there -- (insert name of star). The music itself is a baffling medley of guitars, fiddles, violins, and whining voices varying in mood from the gay, buoyant "We're Gonna Have a Big Time Tonight" to the lilting sadness of "I Wonder Where Y'are Tonight." Although I have never heard of the singers--the Lane Brothers, Jimmy Dickens, and Tex Logan--apparently they are the aristocracy...
When the agitators finish playing patsy with the bull, the actual business of dismantling the animal begins. A man with two gaily festooned spears attempts to insert them between the bull's shoulder blades. He does this several times, so that by the time the matador carries the fight to the bull with a sword long enough to row a boat, the bull is charging around with five or six of these spears sticking...