Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...martyrdom." The only other resolution would come from a decisive victory by one side or the other. But even in the event of a Basra offensive, military analysts predict, Iran will still prove unable to win the war and Iraq unlikely to lose it. The only certainty is more blood, and then more...
Indian researchers have long been afraid that AIDS, which destroys the body's natural defenses against disease, would spread rapidly once it reached the subcontinent. Known as HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus, the AIDS microbe is transmitted by sexual intercourse, blood transfusions and contaminated needles, though not, say researchers, by casual contact with infected persons. During pregnancy, infected women can pass the virus on to their unborn children...
Hemingway should be spared further Freudian autopsy. He was a masterpiece of contradiction. Every element in him had a blood feud with its opposite. He cherished his friends and he treacherously turned on them (on Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, Scott Fitzgerald and many others). He adored women and he hated them. His literary program was to write the brutal truth, and yet he was sometimes a liar and a fraud. He was profoundly creative and profoundly destructive. He had a spontaneous gift of life. He enjoyed (that is the word) a lifelong relationship with death. He resolved all contradictions...
...Scoffed a U.S. State Department official: "It's amazing that they propose to do something like this when they can't even keep food on the shelves." In Managua, pro-Sandinista Columnist Jose Lopez Callejas decried putting a "piece of Miami, Monaco or Switzerland" on land "consecrated by the blood of our heroes and martyrs." The Sandinistas responded to the criticism by imposing a blackout on all new information about the resort...
Schroeder's troubled history, and that of other permanent Jarvik-7 patients, has led critics to call for a temporary halt in the program. Examination of some of the implanted hearts has revealed accumulations of platelets, which can contribute to blood clots in the brain, in the devices' crevices and along the path blood travels. Says Dr. Lyle Joyce, who assisted DeVries at the first Jarvik-7 implant operation on Barney Clark and is now head of the artificial-heart program at the Minneapolis Heart Institute: "It is time to wait for new modifications of the Jarvik...