Word: bequeath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bequeath to yours...
...more. Tens of thousands of Americans in recent years have decided to bequeath their bodies to science. The result is a body boom that is leaving schools and research labs in some parts of the country with more cadavers than they can dissect.* Medical schools in Illinois, which plan to use 360 bodies this year, have 390 on hand already and applications from 29,000 people who want to cooperate when the time conies. Ohio State University School of Medicine, which uses about 80 a year, has a stockpile of 127. The University of Wisconsin Medical School, which uses fewer...
...speedy donation was made possible by Utah's passage of the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, which gives any patient the right to bequeath his body or organs for medical purposes. Because of almost nationwide adoption of the act-and changing public attitudes toward transplants-surgeons long frustrated by a shortage of donor organs now foresee an increase in the supply...
...Godot he would be here with us and we would be happy, infinitely happy, with full faith in the ultimate triumph of mind. Because Godot does not come, we wait; we are all street freaks, passing the time with the games Western civilization has been kind enough to bequeath...
Galya has had other interesting but troublesome relationships. Last June 18, a friend of hers, Gustav F. Ingwerson, a Denver inventor, painter and plastics designer, died of potassium cyanide poisoning. Ingwerson's will left less to his family than expected. He did bequeath small amounts of stock and an assortment of personal possessions-including a cuckoo clock, a color TV and a dinosaur bone-to Galya and her two children. Galya is now charged by Denver police with forging that will. She pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity...