Word: toothpick
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Half a Toothpick. With high-speed film, the resultant X-ray image is sharp enough to show blockages only one-fourth the width of a coronary artery, and to pick out collateral blood vessels only 80 microns in diameter-about half the thickness of a toothpick. Says Sones: "We hope eventually to be able to see vessels as small as 30 microns (.0012 in.) in diameter, because even vessels that small can act as effective collateral channels for blood from a diseased artery...
...have lost the edge in military strength to the Russians. "Is it possible that the richest nation in history can no longer afford to be the strongest?" Instead of "speak softly and carry a big stick," as Theodore Roosevelt advised, the Republican motto is "talk tough and carry a toothpick...