Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yael Dayan's memoir is stained with blood, Camelia Sadat's is soaked in tears. But the daughters are not as dissimilar as they seem. Camelia, 36, also plays out an Oedipal drama: when she is photographed with Egypt's President, "gossip followed that Father was involved with an attractive young woman whom he intended to marry. I thought it a huge joke." The joke was not always so funny. In this sad account, Sadat marries off his daughter when she is twelve, to a man 17 years her senior. When she later demands a divorce, her father grows glacially...
...treatment, according to the doctors, increases the number of the body's lymphocytes, or disease-fighting white blood cells, present in the area of a cancer. Using a wellknown protein substance, the doctors said they were able to artificially stimulate the growth of lymphocytes and then inject the cells back into the blood stream to fight the tumor...
This year's hottest items have been executioner and Ninja outfits. "Everyone asks for them. We've also sold zillions of blood capsules," Freed said as dozens of people milled about, examining such necessities as Groucho glasses, clown makeup, fake blood and skin-wigs...
Strokes result when blood clots tear free from the heart and lodge in an artery in the brain. The affliction is the third leading killer in the United States, behind heart disease and cancer...
...Committee for the Restoration of the Woolly Mammoth certainly has nothing against humor. Even the most serious of causes can be funny, and the Committee took no offense at the satire implicit in the SASC's "Hey, hey, ho, ho, blood on your portfolio" antics. We admit that some of our slogans, such as "Derek Bok, Derek Bok, Let the woolly mammoth walk," were trite, and could stand some mockery. Now, however, the fun has gone too far. Victoria G.T. Bassetti's editorial in the Oct. 28 Crimson, far from being humorous, is seriously offensive. Parodies of mammoth slogans...