Word: blood
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Officials said the most important part of the act, sponsored by Rep. L. Salvatore F. DiMasi (D-North End), concerns the breathalyzer test. The new bill stipulates that any driver whose blood measures at least .1 percent alcohol on the breath test would receive an automatic suspension of his driver's license...
...arteries or slow the heart rate. Shell favors nitroglycerin patches applied to his patients' skin. "We don't have proof that this lowers the risk of heart attack," he says, "but anecdotally, I can tell you that my patients are doing better." Others have used bypass surgery (which allows blood to circumvent clogged arteries) or balloon angioplasty (to widen arterial passageways) against the silent attacks...
...surprise the seance flopped. No handcuffs opened. No lights dimmed. No furniture levitated. No unearthly dust blew through the room. What is more, the Houdini contacted by Monroe bungled the answers to questions posed by members of the inner circle. "What was your favorite dessert?" Marie Blood, the great magician's niece, wanted to know. "Strawberry," gasped Monroe. "Wrong," chided Mrs. Blood, who traveled all the way from Pinehurst, N.C., for the occasion. "It was bread pudding," she informed the audience, "with Bing cherries...
...partners. The latter objective receives its own 19-entry chapter, in which Novelist Virginia Faulkner's advice is cited: "I ask the gentleman on my right, 'Are you a bed-wetter?', and when we have exhausted that, I remark to the gentleman on my left, 'You know, I spit blood this morning.' " Hodgepodge has an erudite word for just about every purpose and contingency, including, in a section on critics, Ambrose Bierce's review of another volume: "The covers of this book are too far apart." The covers of this one are too close together...
Once more blood flowed in a Paris street. Once again posters picturing suspected killers appeared in the City of Light. This time the victim was Georges Besse, 58, president of France's largest auto-manufacturing concern, state-owned Renault. Coming just two months after a wave of bombings in crowded commercial centers across Paris killed eleven and injured more than 160, the shooting of Besse outside his home last week shocked and saddened the nation. On Friday 2,000 mourners, headed by President Francois Mitterrand and Premier Jacques Chirac, attended a funeral service for the slain executive at the Hotel...