Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ends of the air tubes in his lungs. The irritation forms scar tissue, whose stiffness keeps the sacs from collapsing, as they normally do, to expel air from the lungs. Breathing becomes harder & harder until the miner has to use all his strength merely to keep his blood oxygenated. Bacterial infections, including tuberculosis, often add to his misery...
Even as the freshman football team enjoys top billing at Soldiers Field this afternoon, behind the barricades of the Blood Pit the Jayvee squad takes on Leicester Junior College. It will be the first game of the season for the Jayvees...
...Braves-Red Sox issue been brought to a boil via the world series, much bad blood would have flowed in the streets. Most of it would have been the blood of Braves partisans, for Sox enthusiasts take full advantage of their numerical superiority to exert majority tyranny...
Rope. Alfred Hitchcock's blood-freezer about two bright young men who commit murder just for the fun of it, with John Dall, Farley Granger and James Stewart (TIME, Sept...
...main characters dominate the novel. One is Charles Mallison, a 16-year-old boy who, in the scheme of the book, represents innocence and freshness, the potentiality of Southern white manhood unspoiled by ancient hatreds. Counterposed to Charles is Lucas Beauchamp, an old Negro farmer with some white blood in his veins, who lives in solitary dignity on a patch of land bequeathed by a white ancestor. Lucas Beauchamp is one of the most magnificent and majestic characters in all American fiction. "Solitary, kinless and intractable, apparently not only without friends even in his own race but proud...