Word: plastic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Tarawa's wounded-like all the wounded from World War II-were coming home. Many would come home with missing arms, legs, eyes, faces. Blood plasma, sulfa drugs and plastic surgery would send many of them back alive but unrecognizable...
...feverish market for them in the coast's mushrooming shipyards-at $500 apiece. Reason: with the old method, a fast worker could weld 40 studs in eight hours; with the rocket gun, 1,000. (A Liberty ship has 10,000 studs to hold hangers for wireways and pipes, plastic decking, etc. in place...
...Said Plastic Surgeon Robert H. Ivy of Philadelphia, who was an Army surgeon in World War I: "Many times in the closure of a cut on the face, very coarse, deep sutures [stitches] including the skin and deeper tissues have been placed with a heavy needle. These later leave broad scars." (The proper method is to stitch the lower layer of a wound, then fasten the skin edges together with a fine thread...
...night you can sleep in an A-deck suite whose decorations may include peach glass and python-skin fabrics. . . . You open the bathroom door by a plastic composition knob that is warm to the touch. . . . In one ballroom indirect colored lights change automatically with varying tunes of the dance orchestra...
There was a Dutch cap made of a kitchen towel, trimmed with four napkin rings, a cookie cutter and a tea strainer. There was a tricorn glittering with plastic cutlery, grapefruit knives and ice tongs, and a hat of a sponge pierced with iced-tea spoons. The queer fact about these hats was that they were all becoming. Ben says: "The sale is made in the mirror...