Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pools of blood remained in and around a telephone booth on Garden St. outside the Harvard Police station, and bloody footprints covered the sidewalk...
Paradoxically, Eliot's failings are magnified by the enormous moral authority he acquired through his writing. He did not speak with the flamboyance of personality, that itch toward originality that distinguishes this blood-soaked century. Instead, he offered his words in the service of a long tradition, from Vergil to Dante to Donne to the Puritans among his ancestors. He saw himself, at times, as a modern Aeneas, compelled to struggle, suffer and carry old burdens to a new synthesis of civilization. He knew he was courting failure. He mocked his own earnestness in verse: "How unpleasant to meet...
...Ernest and Regina Twigg of Langhorne, Pa., the death of their nine-year- old Arlena after heart surgery last month was heartbreaking -- on top of anguish that began after presurgery tests of Arlena's blood revealed she was Type B positive. The Twiggs both have Type O blood, which meant that Arlena probably had not been their natural child...
...their pink-cheeked infant scored a perfect 10 on the Apgar health rating. Nevertheless the baby the Twiggs took home suffered from a heart abnormality. The child's weight was allegedly changed from 8 lbs. 6 oz. to 6 lbs. on the birth certificate, which also recorded Arlena's blood type as O. A battery of genetic tests proved that the child the Twiggs had raised for ten years could not have been their daughter. Last week the family filed a $100 million lawsuit against the hospital, three doctors and a nurse, charging that they had switched the healthy newborn...
Perhaps it is, George, and not a day too soon. At least, the Democrats believe that medical care should not be a luxury on par with pearls and furs. A child's smashed nose ought to be treated, whether he's a poor Appalachian boy or an Andover blue-blood...