Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shippers Asked to Avoid Suez...
Early heart-lung designers, starting with Gibbon, tried oxygenation by "filming" the blood, i.e., letting it run thin over a flat surface. They wanted to avoid bubbling it because of the danger that some bubbles might be left in, and if these reached the brain, they could cause paralysis or death. Richard DeWall, a general practitioner from Anoka, Minn., went to work with Lillehei. Neophyte DeWall figured: Instead of dreading bubbles, why not put them to use? After all, the blood could be made to "film" around bubbles. He took the revolutionary step of pumping the patient's blood...
...institution of Lent is nothing but a capitalist plot to glorify the starvation of the workers, Pravda told its readers last week. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. were urged to avoid the sinister practice of fasting for the 40 days before Easter-"especially damaging because it coincides with the time of spring sowing, and it decreases sharply the labor productivity of the collective farmers...
Under oath before SEC, Silberstein angrily denied any personal profit, said that his operations are perfectly legal methods of buying stock without paying more cash than Penn-Texas can afford. The stock, said he, was bought through the web of intermediaries to 1) avoid pushing the open-market price higher, and 2) get it from sources who would sell it on credit or agree to later delivery and payment. Despite the high premiums, said Silberstein, Penn-Texas bought Fairbanks, Morse stock (now about $57) at an average $52 a share...
...make love with pants on. Never sleep in moonlight. Known by scientists to induce madness . . . Never wear red necktie. Provide light snorts for ladies if entertaining. Effects of harder stuff on frail sex sometimes disastrous. Bathe in cold water every morning. Painful but exhilarating . . . Eat fresh fish for breakfast. Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely gray hair. Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the Lord...