Word: bloodlessness
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...consisting entirely of military men. One of its first acts was to cancel the agreement that the Belaúnde government had reached with IPC. Asked when there would be new elections, General Velasco said nothing. Once more, a Latin American army had taken over a civilian regime. The bloodless coup in Peru brought to three-fourths the proportion of people on the continent living under military rule...
Transplantation of the cartilage that surrounds the bone in joints would offer hope to vast numbers of victims of arthritis and other joint diseases. And, said Glasgow's Dr. Thomas Gibson, there would be no rejection problem, because cartilage is bloodless. But cartilage by itself is not enough. In animals, joints have been reconstructed successfully with cartilage left adhering to a delicately sculptured layer of bone, though Gibson is not yet ready to try that approach...
...Kirk, or Truman, or anyone high in the Columbia administration had had the respect of the students, he could have personally spoken to the demonstrators--much as Dean Glimp spoke to protestors at Mallinckrodt last October--and perhaps achieved a bloodless settlement. The sad fact, however, is that the president of Columbia cannot communicate with his students at all, and was reduced to a surprise show of force. The bloodstains are testimony to Kirk's failure to function as a president...
...prudent to avoid the few Westerners who have lately managed to get entry visas, and the government became stricter about letting Poles leave the country. Everywhere there seemed to be larger numbers than usual of plainclothes policemen and other shadowy characters. The country's severest purge since the bloodless revolution of 1956, which had started off a few weeks earlier by concentrating on the Jews in government and universities, suddenly spread to engulf people in other walks of Polish life...
...simple bourgeois shot of the Prudential looking calm like Sunday morning and the sports page. On the pavement three dark figures from an ominous Other World spin a tiny street caper. Cut away and up through telephone wires to a rolling grey sky. Then abruptly to a bloodless flower child running running running along Graduate-white walls, down the empty spaces of a railroad yard, into some urban junkland moor, all this under a categorically blue sky and the electronic fallout of Streetchoir music tortured backwards through a tape-recorder. A conversation is heard. The flower child finds a blackjacket...