Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resourceful doctors at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital knew how tough a problem it is to transplant a human kidney under the most favorable circumstances. They had already done transplants from two men to their identical twins-and each operation was apparently successful. But what would happen to a transplanted kidney if the recipient were a woman and she later became pregnant...
Bedregal has no intention of weakening. He is bent upon renovation of the tin mines as an essential step to ward restoring national solvency and self-respect. "We are facing a point of definition in this country," he says. "This is absolutely the most important development since the revolution...
Piece Period, the troupe's second number, is a tart, witty spoof of people and places, Italian, Spanish, French, English, German. In one of its six segments, Dos, an adventure-bent minx, appears in a saucy blue corselet with a black lace fringe. She is hounded, and eventually grounded, by twin Mrs. Grundys in black mantillas who shadow her every move on angry little sandpiper feet, then go skittering triumphantly off, presumably to tell the neighbors all about...
...year-old accountant was dying of longstanding kidney disease when he went into Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in January of 1962. Doctors used heroic measures, but it looked like a losing battle. Then another Brigham patient died after a heart operation. The hospital's famous team of kidney-transplant pioneers (TIME, May 3) rushed into action...
...into this reverent hush, two Sabbaths ago, that 500 cheerful American and European Baptists drew up in 20 buses, having come, on tourism bent, through the Mandelbaum Gate from Jordanian Jerusalem. The Orthodox Jews of Mea She'arim were dumfounded with outrage-and none more than a lean, hawk-eyed man who has a fair claim to the title of the world's most orthodox Orthodox Jew. On occasion, he even shows up in sackcloth and ashes. He is Amram Blau, 63, leader of a fanatical Mea She'arim sect called the Neturei Karta (guardians...