Word: bloodedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cuban troops were to be drawn into the civil war between the Ethiopian regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam and the well-armed secessionist rebels of Eritrea, or if Cuban units should find themselves in pitched battles against South African or Rhodesian army units. If the amount of Cuban blood spilled in Africa should increase dramatically, Castro might have to resort to officially conscripting soldiers for African duty. Privately, a number of Cuban officials admit that their routing of the Somali invaders of Ethiopia last spring was a walkover, but that there are no more easy victories in Africa. They also...
...good news, however, is that many new fans have reached jazz through fusion. They began by listening to such groups as Blood Sweat and Tears and Chicago, which moved toward jazz in the '60s as some jazz began moving toward rock...
Though surprisingly little is known about the spleen, a small organ located beneath the left rib cage, it has at least one important function: filtering bacteria and foreign material from the blood. That function makes the spleen particularly important in warding off serious bacterial infections and meningitis in children, who have not yet developed immunity to certain microorganisms. Yet doctors have long been puzzled by the fact that such infections, relatively common in children whose spleens have been removed in the treatment of cancer or blood disease, seldom show up in youngsters whose spleens have ruptured and then been removed...
...Yale team, headed by Pediatrician Howard Pearson, examined 22 patients who had had damaged spleens removed after childhood accidents. Blood tests showed that in 13 of the patients, spleen-like filtering of the blood was apparently continuing, even though their spleens had been removed from one to eight years before the examination. Subsequent radioactive scanning of the abdomens of five of the 13 revealed small nodules of spleen tissue. What had happened, the doctors conclude in the New England Journal of Medicine, was that cells from the ruptured organ spilled out, became implanted in the walls of the abdominal cavity...
...part of French opinion vaguely holds that the Arabs have in a way earned the right to slaughter and mutilate, while another part is willing to justify in a way all excesses. To justify himself, each relies on the other's crime. But that is a casuistry of blood, and it strikes me that an intellectual cannot become involved in it, unless he takes up arms himself...