Word: bone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Young Matteo Matteotti, bone-bred Socialist that he was, was nonetheless outraged by the alliance which Socialist Party Leader Pietro Nenni had just made with the Communists. Sadly, Matteotti charged Nenni with spreading "fear and terrorism" in the party. Then, amidst cries of "degenerate son," he stalked out to help organize a splinter group, which eventually became the anti-Communist Social Democratic Party...
...Gascar whose Beasts and Men was published as two separate books in France, one of which (Les Betes) unprecedentedly won both the Prix Goncourt and Prix des Critiques awards in 1953. Very much in the Kafka tradition, Author Gascar has put together in these short stories as mordant and bone-chilling a set of circumstances as modern literature has had to offer since Kafka wrote Metamorphosis, a tale of a timid salesman who woke one morning to find himself in the monstrous shape of a gigantic cockroach...
...detect many early cancers which otherwise defy diagnosis is by studying the cells in a minute quantity of fluid taken from the bone marrow (usually breastbone) through a large-bore needle, reported researchers at Ontario's Hamilton General Hospital. Even when cancer is not directly suspected, and when the symptoms are such common ones as anemia, fatigue, loss of weight, or changes in the white blood-cell count, they often find telltale cancer cells in the marrow. After running the tests on 4,100 patients, they now make them routinely in all cases where diagnosis is in doubt...
...began excision of parts of the first body. The surgeons removed long sections of both ascending and descending aorta. With a dermatome they took skin, only 15/1,000 of an inch thick, from the trunk and legs. Next came fascia (connective tissue) from the thighs. They also took pelvic bone. Each item was measured, labeled and prepared for storage. At 3:30 a.m. the operations ended, and the tissue bank's doors-imprinted with the proud legend Ex Morte Vita (Life from Death)-were shut...
...death of her son Peter in Flanders during World War I struck Käthe Kollwitz to the bone, calling forth her most moving protests against war. A prime example is The Survivors (see cut), done in 1923, in which even the clamor of children remains hushed before the unforgettable mask of grief. It was a face the Nazis could not bear to see, and they banned her works. Invited to escape to the U.S., Kollwitz chose to remain in Germany, fearful that the Nazis would persecute her family if she left. In 1943, shortly before Allied bombers destroyed...