Word: blooded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most successful blood drive at Harvard in recent years ended on Friday. 1.179 individuals gave blood in the drive whose goal had originally been for 1,000 donors...
...drive was highlighted by the involvement of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee. Jeffrey Nims '71, the drive's director, said that the anti-war group "gave the entire blood drive a new tone." Posters bearing the Moratorium's symbol, the peace dove, said: "Show that life has priority- give personal witness in a tangible way at Mem. Hall...
This year donors were to be asked whether they had smoked marijuana in the past two weeks or had taken hard drugs within the past half year. If so they were not allowed to donate blood. A Red Cross official said this procedure was initiated because too little was knownabout the effect of marijuana and hard drugs on blood. However, many donors said that they had not been asked these questions...
Nims said that while 1,400 people turned out for the drive, many had to be turned away for reasons of poor health. Potential donors were checked for blood pressure, pulse temperature and blood disease and asked questions concerning their medical history...
...girl across the table told me how the nurses gave her "a double arm." The first nurse missed her vein so another nurse tried her luck on the other arm. The guy next to me said he was giving blood to protest the war. I did not have any pat answer explaining my reasons, but part of it was because giving blood is like giving money to charity-except it gets under your skin a lot more...