Word: tip
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...human experience. In Success Story, for instance, an ancient fellow approaches a park bench. "Then he turned himself carefully round; bringing into the spring sunlight, pale as a primrose, his dun face, hollow-cheeked and dry; the great orbits of his sunk eyes; the long nose fallen at the tip; his white mustache, of thin separate hairs like glass threads . . . A string of muscle jerked in the shadow of the cheekbone." His success is twofold. In the first place a child of three takes an incomprehensible fancy to him and for a few glorious minutes they play. Then...
...thousand windows, precisely the same: one thousand radiators, precisely the same (no fireplaces); one thousand cheap (and ugly) linoleum floors--and untold millions of utilitarian cinder blocks, many of them unpainted. Every morning when I wake up and touch my ceiling (I do not have to stand on tip toes to do so) I am reminded of how much like insects all of us "Towerites" are: those of us with rooms facing east are awakened by the heat and light of the sun shining through our utilitarian windows (and curtains--all the same shade of gold) at approximately the same...
...grandfather was a cannibal," said the brand-new Anglican bishop to a reporter last week. "I remember his giving me a tip-the palms of a man's hands make the best eating." The Right Rev. George Ambo, 37, had a miter placed on his head in St. John's Cathedral of Brisbane, Australia, and became the first South Pacific native to be made a bishop. Twelve bishops assisted Brisbane's Archbishop Reginald Halse at the consecration before a congregation of 2,000, including Bishop Ambo's tribally tattooed wife, Marcella, 31, and their 13-year...
...dreamed I went swimming in my Maidenform bra." A tip of the hat to Ida Rosenthal . . . It's about time...
...that his technique involves some risk. Although the catheter is less than half as thick as an average coronary artery, it can still obstruct the flow of blood into the heart. Throughout the operation, Drs. Sones and Shirey monitor the pressure of the blood against the catheter's tip. Explains Sones: "If the pressure starts to flatten out, we know the tip has obstructed the artery or one of its branches. Then we have from ten to 30 seconds to get it out before the heart is starved for blood and the patient has a heart attack." The mortality...