Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...system disorders like lupus erythematosis, myasthenia gravis and polymyositis, it is somewhat similar to hemodialysis for kidney patients. For three or so hours, the blood is slowly tapped from the body, shunted into a centrifuge, spun and separated into its constituents by weight: heavy red cells sink to the bottom, white cells settle in the middle, platelets and fluid plasma rise to the top. Components can be selectively removed and the rest of the blood returned immediately to the patient...
...with the sadness of a lost world, each note a messenger sent wandering among the Waterford goblets." Yet the author is too honest a historian to let sympathy alter circumstances. The first taste of revolution is a heady draft, but the dregs of doom lie at the bottom of the glass. "It was all poetry," observes one survivor wistfully at the end. This thoughtful, graceful elegy is no less...
...Kennedy promptly sent Califano an assemblage of a small, fuzzy pink elephant easily slipping through a keyhole in white posterboard paper. The scrawled note at the bottom: "Joe, it looks to me like it fits. Ted. June...
...television newscasts, though, avoided mention of the indelicate word. Jim Ruddle, anchorman at Chicago's WMAQ-TV, used the term posterior, and Tom Brokaw of NBC'S Today show mumbled slyly about a "three-letter part of the anatomy that's somewhere near the bottom." CBS's Roger Mudd alluded to Carter's remark without quoting it directly, but a copy of the New York Post's anatomically correct front-page headline was projected on a screen behind...
While drawing their vaudevillian routines from the bottom of a gunny sack indelibly marked CORN, these entertainers engage in enough adventures and misadventures to stock a TV mini-series- though much of it would have to be blipped out, since the show is rife with four-letter words, most of which begin with...