Word: blood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Others were concerned about the possibility of blood poisoning among rowers, whose blisters often come into contact with the River's unclean waters...
Three years ago, at least one first-year rower sustained blood poisoning after contact with the water, according to Edward Kloman, Women's Lightweight coach...
...this before? Should I Mach Three today, or go for a barbershop shave with strop and blade? Send someone a letter, or an e-mail? Do I touch-type it up, or take out the typewriter, and probably wrangle with the ribbon far less than I'd sweat blood over a smug squat printer? But, no, it isn't just efficiency, isn't it the pre-modern satisfaction of unfamiliar physical immediacy--actually crunching out the letters, tack tack tack, not beholden to mysterious will o' wisp electrons? Why are we so far removed? Do you know...
...blood vessel] requirement for existing tissue is minimal," Corey said. "The requirement for rapidly-growing tissue is substantial...
...fact, it may be the only supportable form of engagement left to a species that in this century has tacked its way into the horse latitudes of history through an ocean of blood. For the opposite of irony is piety, and piety is devotion to an ideal. But the world wars, Watergate and Vietnam killed our ideals by violence. Our Trumps, Falwells and Clintons will keep them dead by mockery...