Word: bloodedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When New York City hospitals began suspecting Legionnaires' disease as the cause of the unusual type of pneumonia from which six garment-district patients were suffering, they sent blood samples first to the CDC laboratory in Manhattan for analysis and then to Atlanta. The CDC confirmed the diagnosis. By then two victims had died, both deliverymen, who trundle racks loaded with dresses through traffic-choked streets. Investigators looking for clues to the source of the outbreak instantly checked to see if the two worked for the same shop; they did not, but were employed on the same block...
Caswell also set up two telephone hot lines for New Yorkers worried about having Legionnaires' disease to call in and discuss their symptoms. Almost 16,000 hot-line calls were logged in eight days. Health department technicians in a mobile van took more than 300 blood specimens from people who thought they might be infected. One surprising result: many of those working in the garment district were found to have antibodies against the bacterium now known to cause the disease, indicating that they had been infected-without suffering any apparent symptoms-some time ago. This, in turn, suggested that...
...left an empty feeling in one's stomach that Columbia won on a sloppy goal after Bill Blood had come of age with some spectacular saves to keep the Crimson in the game...
...Blood was blocked out on the play and could not get to the bouncing ball as Lion captain Cliff Simms lofted it over him and past a tangled up Langton...
...second half turned into wide open soccer which seemed to favor Columbia, and Blood was called upon to make two big saves, one with two minutes remaining. That and a diving save with 20 seconds in the first half proved that Blood is capable of making the big play. He must now develop poise in crowded situations in front of the net. Because for the second straight game, loose balls proved to be the Crimson's undoing...