Word: clots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief of Criminal Police Georges Clot recalled that Houdard had been in the Maquis. "He had to live off the land; that meant that often he did things that were not exactly legal. He doesn't seem to have gotten out of the habit...
...Smooth Flow. Most dreaded and suddenly fatal of all heart ailments are those due to bloodclotting, e.g., coronary thrombosis. For reasons not yet perfectly understood (too little exercise, poor metabolism, infection), blood cells sometimes begin to stick together to form a thrombus (a stationary clot). But the thrombus grows, may eventually let loose daughter clots (emboli) which swim on to lodge at vital bottlenecks in the blood stream. A thrombus which lodges in a coronary (heart) artery, blocking off the blood supply to the heart muscle, can kill within a few minutes; a clot in the brain causes a stroke...
...Gardners had a tiring day ahead. Max Gardner was in bed by 10 o'clock. Five hours later, he awoke with a sharp pain in his chest. The hotel's doctor was summoned. At 5 a.m. a heart specialist was called. Examination showed that a blood clot was blocking off the blood from Max Gardner's heart. At 8:25 a.m. the starved heart stopped. Oliver Max Gardner was dead. It would be hard to find as good a man to fill his place...
...particularly hard blow to Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison, whose parliamentary secretary she had been when Morrison was Minister of Home Security in the War Cabinet. Prime Minister Clement Attlee brought the news to him in a hospital where Morrison has lain for three weeks waiting for a blood clot in his leg to dissolve. Said Attlee: "This will just make everything a hell of a lot more difficult...
...grains of matter are present, said Dr. Spitzer, the gas molecules collide with them. This reduces the molecules' velocity (the same thing as their temperature). Then they adhere to the grains, making them bigger. Eventually the grains get big enough to attract one another by gravitation. The little clot grows to a bigger clot. In a billion years or so, a star is born...