Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is not, and cannot be, a substitute for whole blood, because it contains living cells. And whole blood is best for the wounded and for most victims of shock. But whole blood cannot be stored more than three weeks and cannot be given on the battlefield, so doctors use plasma (the blood fluid from which the cells have been removed) for first aid. Plasma will keep for years. As an emergency treatment for shock, doctors use plasma "extenders" such as salt solution, gelatine or Dextran. None of these contains the complex chemicals found in plasma, and none would...
James Mason brings a brooding intensity to the role of Rommel, sharply points up the contrast between his brilliance in the field and his uncertainty in public life. Unfortunately for the pace and excitement of the movie, Rommel is shown too seldom on the battlefield, and then only in defeat. The script, by Producer-Writer Nunnally Johnson, has the competence of journalistic history, but most of the excitement is packed into the picture's opening moments, during an ill-fated British Commando raid on Rommel's North African headquarters...
...University of Illinois, but too many tonsils are still being snipped. The first thing to remember, he writes in Postgraduate Medicine, is that all sorts of germs nestle in the tonsils from infancy; the body destroys many of them on the spot. Thus, the tonsils are a natural battlefield where a child can develop useful immunities...
...miles at the push of a button. U.S. military men think such talk dangerously misleading. It will be years, perhaps decades, before the U.S. will have a satisfactory intercontinental rocket. Even then, no amount of atomic weapons can take the place of men with guns on the battlefield...
...colonial war, it is a war against Red colonialism; as in Korea, it is a war against Communist dictatorship. France has assumed the burden of the war in Indo-China at a tremendous cost to her manpower and financial resources . . . We are fighting on a world battlefield, for liberty and for peace...