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Word: blood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meat cleaver this weekend and my body was ravaged beyond human recognition, leaving me limbless and very sad. The department has decided not to give me any extensions so I have to write my thesis, which is due in 10 minutes and I haven't started, in blood...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Who Cares? | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

...CONVERSATIONS are a sad institution in Harvard undergraduate life. Incredible though it may sound, most students actually seem to believe that they have been assigned more work than everyone else. The result is the brisk negligence of Conversation One and the grotesque verbal blood-bath of Conversation...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Who Cares? | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

French and Portuguese researchers disclosed the existence of LAV-II in March, after finding the new AIDS virus in the blood of two West Africans. At the time, Montagnier's colleague Dr. Francois Clavel warned that LAV-II could elude current blood-screening tests for AIDS. Since this virus appeared to be extremely rare, the risk to banked blood seemed small. Subsequent testing of West Africans, however, turned up 63 more victims infected with LAV-II; eleven of them have contracted AIDS, and ten have AIDS-related illnesses. Though no American has yet been found to harbor the new virus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood Worries: A new warning about AIDS | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

...behind in paying the bills. After this rude assault, Ellen has an insight about her corporeal self and that of women in general: "A Female Body is not just a piece of liver from the butcher . . . It is more like a musical instrument made of flesh and blood that has music waiting inside it but only for properly trained hands to coax out. Make the bastards learn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For He's a Jolly Good Fellow the Pianoplayers | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

VICTOR HERBERT: The American Girl. Soprano Teresa Ringholz, with Donald Hunsberger conducting the Eastman-Dryden Orchestra (Arabesque). KURT WEILL: Stratas Sings Weill. Soprano Teresa Stratas, with Gerard Schwarz conducting the Y Chamber Symphony (Nonesuch). Americans seem to have show music in their blood, even when they were immigrants like Weill (Germany) and Herbert (Ireland). Herbert, a cello virtuoso and conductor who directed the Pittsburgh Symphony from 1898 to 1904, wanted to be taken seriously -- as did, similarly, Sir Arthur Sullivan -- but it was his 40-odd operettas (Babes in Toyland, Naughty Marietta) that won him lasting fame. Hunsberger leads crisp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Once Upon a Time in America | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

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