Word: anemia
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...matters led him into crusades against conscription in World War I, later into a battle with Australian Labor Party Communists, during which he supported a splinter labor party and deflected enough votes in the 1955 election to give the Robert Gordon Menzies Liberals command of Australian politics; of cerebral anemia; in Melbourne...
...cross his zigzag path. On his travels he encounters Komako, a female swindler with a grisly gimmick: she begs by posing as a Hiroshima maiden, although her scars are really from a childhood encounter with a fireplace. "My white corpuscles decrease daily-sometimes I swoon from anemia," she says with a pitiful passion. But she has to use sweet-potato moonshine, rather than a sob story, to pry loose Junpei's bankroll. Then she absconds, but only after he has fallen in love with...
Applying the Lyon hypothesis to women, geneticists at California's City of Hope have shown mosaicism in women who suffer from a form of Mediterranean anemia. But this is only one of at least 58 inborn defects that appear to result from defects in X chromosomes. Among others: some forms of color blindness and of anemia, hemophilia, muscular dystrophy, deafness...
...flying wedge of burly conservative "secretaries" smashed through, carrying the aging, anemia-weakened chairman in with them. As the vote was hurriedly taken, Socialists screamed "Fascist dictatorship!" and charged. In the melee, Chairman Nagayama disappeared, was rescued ten minutes later by Diet guards who found him bruised and bleeding on the floor. He was rushed to a hospital...
...Herbert Hoover, 88, condition serious, "due to anemia secondary to bleeding from the gastrointestinal tract," at home in his Waldorf-Astoria apartment; G. Frederick Reinhardt, 51, U.S. Ambassador to Italy, hospitalized in Rome with an ulcer and low blood pressure; Republican Clarence J. Brown, 67, Ohio's senior Congressman, suffering "a severe back strain," abed at Bethesda Naval Hospital; Queen Ingrid of Denmark, 53, with mild stomach ulcers, abandoning all engagements in favor of rest and diet, at her summer residence, Fredensborg Castle...