Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the siege of Warsaw, was hurled against a wall like a rag doll, left moaning with a badly injured spine. In the smoking room, where water poured through shattered ports, men and women and furniture were piled in a jumbled heap while the precipitous floor turned slick with blood and water...
...Latest theory of the complicated workings of allergic reaction: An allergen enters the bloodstream. If there are specific antibodies already present in the blood, the allergen is "conquered" and no symptoms result. But if the body is taken unawares, and antibodies are resting in tissue cells, a terrific battle follows. The offending allergen may be "neutralized," but only with great damage to tissue cells. As the cells are torn, large quantities of the chemical histamine escape into the bloodstream, cause "certain organic reactions ... in the walls of the blood vessels and in the smooth muscles...
...strange pallor. . . . A young black beard, which mingled with the ritualistic ear-locks hanging down at either side." Less than two years later, when Yeshua stands before the Roman's superior, Pilate, the soldier notes: "On his graying-hair lay a wreath woven of thorns. . . . Little trickles of blood clotted the hair of his ear-locks, ran down his beard, and fell drop by drop onto his throat and naked body...
...profession notorious for the latitude it allows its writers, Bill Cunningham writes absolutely as he pleases. On the day after Britain declared war on Germany he began his column: "There's blood on the paper this morning." That day (as frequently happens) he had nothing at all to say about sports. "They bury a world when they go to war," wrote Bill Cunningham, who knew. "Yeah. Walk softly, and with your hat in your hand...
...came shortly afterwards, on December 17, 1830. Wasted to skin & bone, coughing blood, racked with hemorrhoids, the 47-year-old Liberator cried out in his last delirium: "José! Bring the luggage. They do not want us here...