Word: bleed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company's own salesmen with the high-speed surgical staplers it manufactures. The trainees practice by stapling multiple surgical incisions on anesthetized dogs, after which the animals are destroyed. Hirsch insists there is no substitute for live animals in the training program. "A dead dog doesn't bleed," he says. "You need to have real blood-flow conditions, or you get a false sense of security. A stapler improperly used is a very dangerous device." But Susan Seymour of Friends of Animals charges that using the dogs in the training program is unnecessary. She notes that many surgeons learn stapling...
Harris said the computer "did not see that the engine bleed valve had fully closed." He said engineers were trying to determine if there was a faulty valve or if the sensor had given an incorrect reading...
...bleed valve vents off excess gases...
When such blights occur in coastal areas, the result can be devastating. Last November a red tide off the coast of the Carolinas killed several thousand mullet and all but wiped out the scallop population. Reason: the responsible species, Ptychodiscus brevis, contains a poison that causes fish to bleed to death. Brown tides, unknown to Long Island waters before 1985, have occurred every summer since; they pose a constant threat to valuable shellfish beds...
...these creatures are angels, too, Damiel decides, but most important they are human. They can bleed and see colors. They can feel warmth and pain. Damiel wants to enter their world, "if only to hold an apple in my hand." He wants to be able to feel now instead of just observing forever. He wants to say "Ah!" instead of "Amen." He wants to create his own story in his own voice. So he takes the plunge, toward his airborne woman. An angel must fall to earth to fall in love...