Word: blistering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next to him. A man leaned out the window, pointed a rubber syringe at Thompson, squirted a stream of liquid. Only bad aim saved Frank Thompson from serious injury: the liquid was sulphuric acid, and the little that did hit Thompson burned a hole through his shirt, raised a blister...
...singleness of purpose, Surgeon DeBakey worked all day every day and half the night (since 1948 at Houston's Baylor University hospitals) on mechanical defects of blood vessels, especially the aorta. This great vessel, the body's main artery, sometimes develops an aneurysm (like a ballooning blister on a bicycle's inner tube) that is often painful and disabling, and fatal when it bursts. Daringly, Dr. DeBakey began to cut out aneurysms and replace the damaged section of aorta with a graft from an artery bank. Gradually, with improved techniques and materials, he inched closer...
...giving instructions to the 16-year-old sitter, the lady of the house forgot one thing -that she had sprayed some of the bathroom equipment with a white plastic "miracle" paint, the kind that "won't rub off, peel, chip or blister. It stays...
Grandma Moses must be itching to assemble the sullen-looking gang of leading abstract expressionists [Aug. 4] and blister their individualistic behinds...
...once associated with a "Boston accent" might be traced to the assumption "that the Cabots, in speaking to God, would naturally employ an impeccable diction." They point out that the situation described by the hackneyed "eternal triangle" is "scarcely more unendurable than the phrase," and take special pains to blister John Foster Dulles for his "journalese": "It was not some petty, pretentious scribbler who invented 'massive retaliation' and 'agonizing reappraisal' or spoke of 'unleashing' Chiang Kai-shek...