Word: staging
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Although my operation was the first successful one in which a whole lung was cut out at one stage, two other pioneers in this field deserve much praise for their courage and success. Rudolph Nissen, then of Berlin but now of New York, in 1931 caused the lung of a child to slough out by operating on her in two stages in such a way as deliberately to shut off the blood to the lung. In 1932 Cameron Haight of the University of Michigan . . . performed a similar operation on another child . . . Both patients recovered . . . The reason for the operation...
Only when this stage was reached could the Allies expect the beginnings of a victory over the North Koreans...
...days before the opening . . . Mike wanted to tell me about his revue but I would not let him, it being [my] firm policy to know as little as possible before the opening performance. So Todd and I chatted about stage humor and he told of his own high principles ... So I went to Peep Show . . . There came a sketch-a strip-tease number ... It was in the lowest possible taste. [There was also] an old burlesque number involving a girl who could twirl her breasts ... I felt sorry for the lovely young ladies of the company...
...Depths. Transferred to another prison where his execution seemed imminent, Lilje reached new depths of spiritual and physical suffering. But at this stage of utter helplessness he found his sense of God most sure. "At this extreme limit of human life," he writes, "it becomes clear why God is with those who are despised, outcast, tortured, imprisoned, disinherited and solitary...
...rocket until they put on magnetized boots. Then they can walk on the walls. When a radar antenna jams, they go out on the hull in pressurized monkey suits to make repairs while traveling at seven miles a second. The scientist slips off into space, and his traveling companions stage a fantastic rescue that dramatizes the strange laws of spatial physics. Later, the explorers bound in seven-league strides along the cracked, cratered moonscape where gravity is only one-sixth of what it is in films that take place on the earth...