Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blood spread in a widening stain across the front of Willie's shirt, and ran between the fingers clutched to his belly. In the telephone booth he had been worked over by three men and stabbed. The three hoodlums had raced out of the building, fought off Milletti and got away. At the hospital, Willie's wife, Beatrice, sat beside him until, around midnight, he was ready for the operating room. Then Willie managed a thin grin and said: "Why don't you put some lipstick on and quit crying? You better go home and take care...
Chemical drums exploded like cannon and the fire spread to other trucks; soon tons of meat, eggs, gasoline, cleaning solvent and rags were flaming. River-hemmed Manhattan, which must pump its lifeblood of traffic through overtaxed and distended arteries, reacted like a great organism with a crippling blood clot. As the tunnel's twin tubes were closed, streams of traffic stagnated and honked around its approaches. Electrical cables in the tunnel burned through and the big city's communications began to fail-some radio programs were cut off, Teletypes stopped, 50% of New York's south...
...blood test for cancer announced last month by Dr. Charles B. Huggins (TIME, April 25) indicates possibility of cancer somewhere in the body, does not point to the site...
...that is trying to tread them down that they are in a state of continual and futile preparedness." Their nervous systems, "tuned for combat in the day and rehearsing combat during sleep," get out of whack. So do their glands. The result is such "stress diseases" as ulcers, high blood pressure, overactive thyroids...
...investigations into the components of blood and other tissues have been carried on at the Medical School, where he has been since 1920. The Rockefeller Foundation has been supporting his research for the last 20 years