Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surgery. Such a case is described by Baylor University's Dr. Denton Cooley and colleagues in the A.M.A. Journal. A woman of 37 was sent home, apparently doing well, eleven days after a hysterectomy. Next morning, as she climbed out of the bathtub, she collapsed, gasping for breath and suffering intense pain in the chest. Back she went to Jefferson Davis Hospital, where doctors did everything possible to boost her blood pressure and reduce the risk of further clotting. She was failing fast, 40 hours after her embolism, when Surgeon Cooley recommended a daring operation to clean...
Sprinting from speech to speech on the third anniversary of his revolutionary regime, volatile Kassem repeated last week that he would not use force to "liberate" Kuwait-and in the next breath threatened force against Britain. "We shall launch a bitter war against the British if they do not heed right and abandon oppression!" he told the crowds after reviewing a 2½-hour parade of troops and weapons in Baghdad's Liberation Square...
...duck's egg," he told a French reporter. But he could not resist adding: "The heaviest Soviet satellite weighs four tons. China is too heavy to become a satellite.'' A Polish Communist source insisted that the Deutscher paper was "technically false," but conceded in the next breath that it nevertheless reflected the state of Moscow-Peking relations "with 90% accuracy...
...engage in a series of strangely manipulated double and triple stoppings. The piece most startling to audiences is a concoction by Smith in which he improvises against a background tape recording of an electronically scrambled version of his own clarinet playing, complete with "key clicks and breath noises...
...though he is really 81. Father Hugh Kennedy is hanging back for fear the rest of the party will regard him with the dead-cold eye of the Boston cod. Father Kennedy has been an alcoholic, and though it is five years since he last drank, everyone holds his breath until the errant priest refuses a proffered sherry. Between them, Charlie Carmody and Father Kennedy divide The Edge of Sadness, but do not dominate it. In his first book since The Last Hurrah, Novelist O'Connor signs countless lOUs on his people and plot, and redeems disappointingly...