Word: bloodlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trace of Indian or Negro blood.) Often Brazilians blame the nation's Portuguese colonial masters. Complains a Rio newsman: "Brazil made Portugal rich, and Portugal left Brazil poor." But it is rather late for Brazilians to be blaming the Portuguese: Brazil has been an independent nation since its bloodless revolution...
Said he: "The opera is just as important to Baltimore as the Orioles." He joined forces with members of the Baltimore Opera Club. Last week, in quick, bloodless revolution, the group 1) elected Eleanor Miles vice president; 2) decided on a general rise in ticket prices (e.g., orchestra up from $9 to $10) for Met performances, to provide the guarantee. Lawyer Miles gave all the credit to Eleanor: "I'm just kibitzing...
...quiet, bloodless, but uniformly effective revolution is fomenting on the corner of Linden and Mt. Auburn Sts. At its start, a few students lost their heads; after almost a year, all are able to hold them up again...
...President. Two of Amin Didi's cousins, Ibrahim Mohammed Didi and Ibrahim Ali Didi, quietly plucked the President out of his palatial residence one night and imprisoned him on the nearby island of Doonidu. The two cousins installed themselves in charge. Piece by piece, some details of the bloodless coup reached Ceylon. The deposed President, said Ibrahim Mohammed, was still being kept under guard on Doonidu "for safekeeping"; the main islands apparently were thick with people who wanted to chop Amin Didi's hands off, preferably at the neck. Also, added Ibrahim Mohammed, the people were beginning...
...patient, Dr. Grańa was delighted. The operation proved, he said, that the ancients' tools and methods were as good as the moderns', and in some ways perhaps better. For the future, he foresaw wider use of the tourniquet bandage, which had given him an almost bloodless field of operation. And he thinks another pre-Inca wrinkle may prove useful: flexible bronze needles, which the surgeon can bend when putting in stitches...