Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cairo's volatile mixture of pride, intransigeance and irresponsibility might have touched off an explosion that would blast the free world asunder. Acting just in time, King Farouk brushed aside his irresponsible and dangerous Premier Nahas Pasha and took stern measures to restore a semblance of order. His action in no way solved the problem, but it did give the West, and Egypt, another chance...
Savitt, who gained a few sympathetic fans when Shields failed to name him to the Davis Cup team, and gained even more last fortnight when Shields unloosed his intemperate blast, finally had his comeuppance. And McGregor, who had also gained sympathy when he failed to get a singles berth on Australia's Davis Cup team, finally had his day. McGregor this week pulled a stunning upset by beating Doubles Teammate Sedgman, U.S. champion, 7-5, 12-10, 2-6, 6-2, for the Australian title...
...separation of blood components would be of vital importance in the event of an atomic bomb blast. Dr. Shields Warren, of the New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston and a member of the medical team that visited Nagasaki in September 1945, has cited three distinct and separate problems in the treatment of radiation victims...
...after-effects of an atomic bomb blast would probably he lessened because of current research by Harvard's "blood man," Dr. Edwin J. Cohn. Even though men can't preserve whole blood, Cohn has learned how to preserve many blood components individually, and the separation of blood would be of vital importance in the event of an atomic blast...
...bone marrow, where the red cells are produced, and it is some weeks before the victim's system can take over again. White cells are manufactured in the marrow and lymph glands, which are also affected by radiation. The effects are delayed until about a week after a blast...