Word: bloodedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...estimated 1.25 million Americans take insulin injections daily. With too little of the life-saving hormone, a diabetic's blood sugar can rise to dangerous levels (hyperglycemia); with too much, the sugar level falls too low (hypoglycemia), and the diabetic may go into a coma...
...restore lost or weakened memory? In reports to the journal Lancet, scientists suggest that a hormone found in the pituitary gland may have that effect. The remarkable mnemonic is vasopressin, which was previously known to help regulate the body's water content. The levels of vasopressin in the blood appear to decrease after about the age of 50, just when many people begin to complain of failing memories...
...hero, Frank (John Lithgow), runs a bicycle shop in Belfast. He is zany about bikes and a bit zany all around. He can dismantle a bike and apostrophize its beauty as if he were disrobing a woman and seducing her. It runs in his blood...
...victory Ali had sought the microphones to shout that he was the prettiest, the greatest. In defeat, battered and swollen, blood splattered on his trunks from a 5th-round cut in his mouth, he did not shy from the questions: "I lost fair and square to Spinks. I did everything right, and I lost. I lost simply because Spinks was better, that's all. It's just another experience in my life, nothing to cry about...
...deepest beliefs. And it is all the more interesting because Father Thomas O'Neill is not just a little bit like Ireland itself: religious but unwilling to be stereotyped as such, bothered about his past, uncertain of his future, and unwilling to make the final wager in blood to achieve what he has been told all his life he must do, O'Neill is very much the typical Irishman of the modern era. In that sense, it borders on the tragic that Reid did not see fit to give O'Neill to the world without the necessary coterie of cops...