Word: anemia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late Alfred C. Kinsey's famed sex studies, threatened with financial anemia as support from the Rockefeller Foundation-National Research Council was running out, got a life-saving transfusion: the U.S. Public Health Service allotted $151,693 to Indiana University's Institute for Sex Research for a study of sex offenders entangled with...
...long-awaited banner-headline events, Israel's pullback from Gaza and Sharm el Sheikh, and congressional approval of the Eisenhower Doctrine, brought no deep, nationwide sighs of relief because few Americans ever really got tensed up much about either issue. The economy showed scattered patches of anemia-layoffs in the home-appliances industry in Ohio, four-day weeks in West Coast plywood mills-but even people in the patches seemed confident of its basic health...
...determined: the drug's long-term effect on the treated monkeys and any possible application to humans. Working on another AEC project, Overman is testing the effect of bone marrow injections on radiation damage. High doses of radiation disrupt the normal production of blood elements, causing dangerous anemia and other side effects. Using a technique first developed on mice, Overman has saved monkeys after exposure to normally lethal radiation (700 roentgens) by injections of bone marrow from nonirradiated monkeys...
...Diabetes and pernicious anemia...
...fine printing, Arabian oil, academic freedom, the winter treatment for banana trees in Dallas patios. And what he most abhorred, in his vain way, was weakness-especially weakness of the intellect. Aging, the sight of one eye totally gone, he began to suffer the blood-draining anguish of aplastic anemia. He feared that somehow his mind soon would be affected, found the thought too much to bear...