Word: breathe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cases like hers, the abnormal sickle cells pile up periodically, and many red cells break down, thus lower the hemoglobin-and hence the available oxygen in the blood. The victim feels fatigue, a racing heartbeat, shortness of breath and, as a result of clots which form during the crisis, often severe abdominal pain and aching joints. "Blood transfusions were routine with me," says Marclan. "Long cuts were made on my ankles so the doctors could insert needles into larger veins than they could find in my arms ... At times I would have convulsions, and there would be other times when...
...remaining tales, Author Herlihy comes up, relatively speaking, for a breath of fresh air. One of them is just a simple study of a female lunatic. Evident in all these tales is the hand of a writer for whom the short story is not only a form in itself but a steppingstone to what may well be "twisted" theater of impressive quality...
Instead, the President declares there will be no general income tax relief and in the same breath proposes such regressive measures as the postal increase and the gasoline tax raise. Such fiscal irresponsibility on the President's part, and his unbridled indifference for the lingering distressed areas of the economy, has to be explained in other than economic terms...
...hedge against more inflation as well as a hope of sharing in the growth of the economy. But it is not too high in the light of the earnings investors think they can expect. Nevertheless, some experts expect a pause or short drop for the Bull to catch his breath. The pessimists fear a major shakeout. They could be right only if the nation's reading on its new economy is wrong. And in 1958 the economy's reaction to recession earned it a well-deserved vote of confidence...
...defector to fly West in a long time. A thick-lipped, bushy-browed, literary mountain lion who sported a flowing silk tie, Author Cheishvili condemned "the intellectual intolerance in my country," and said that the "socialist realism" Moscow expected of its authors "made me sick." But in the next breath he defended "with pride the many great things our government has done since Stalin's death." Why, then, had he left his wife and two sons in Tiflis? "I see that there is a role for me," he boomed, "in helping foster coexistence between East and West...