Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...syndicated work of the Washington Post and Times Herald's Herblock, who has been carried every Saturday for the past few years. But the bulk of the daily cartoons will be handled by a newcomer: baby-faced Bill Mauldin, 36, whose Willie-and-Joe cartoons of bearded, bone-weary G.I.s during World War II won a Pulitzer Prize...
...desperate case of Mrs. Lowman, doctors operated for the first time on a new theory. Since antibodies are born in blood cells produced in the bone marrow, it might be possible to curb them by destroying the marrow itself. No mechanism would then remain to reject a transplanted tissue. New bone marrow, from several donors to minimize antibody hostility, could then be injected intravenously...
Taking Over. For three hours under an X-ray machine. Mrs. Lowman was subjected to massive radiation that killed all her bone marrow. Her white blood corpuscle count fell from the normal 5,000 per cubic centimeter to zero. Then a kidney from a four-year-old girl (whose treatment for hydrocephalus required kidney removal) was transplanted to Mrs. Lowman. The Boston surgeons attached it to the femoral arteries and veins below the groin in her right thigh. She received a dozen marrow transfusions before and during the operation, mainly from her brothers. With her count of disease-fighting white...
...grows steadily clearer that Ned, a tycoon in pottery, and Robert, a successful artist, are only a pair of sad dogs snarling for the same old bone, and barking up the wrong tree. Between the artist who sneers at "gobbets of bourgeois wisdom" and the businessman who is nothing but "a lousy provincial potter," it turns out to be fat, good-natured old Joe who achieves love, wisdom and an upbeat ending for good-natured young Novelist Wain...
...going to go out and get doubledeck hamburgers and big malted milks and then we'll go to the movies and then we'll have a soda. And then I say, 'And then we'll go home and I'll break every bone in your body.' That's the treacle cutter...