Word: clots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From the Greek thrombos (clot) and embolos (stopper...
Chemical drums exploded like cannon and the fire spread to other trucks; soon tons of meat, eggs, gasoline, cleaning solvent and rags were flaming. River-hemmed Manhattan, which must pump its lifeblood of traffic through overtaxed and distended arteries, reacted like a great organism with a crippling blood clot. As the tunnel's twin tubes were closed, streams of traffic stagnated and honked around its approaches. Electrical cables in the tunnel burned through and the big city's communications began to fail-some radio programs were cut off, Teletypes stopped, 50% of New York's south...
Golfer Ben Hogan, 36, who broke pelvis, collarbone, ankle and rib in an auto crash five weeks ago, had an abdominal operation to clear up a "critical" blood clot condition. He was reported in "good condition" after the operation, but it would still take him a couple of months to fully recover from the fractures...
...Hope took a header running up a studio gangplank, was ordered to bed for a week with a blood clot in his left...
...Republicans who had started the fight to bar him from the Senate. As summer wore on he seemed to be on the road to recovery. But a fortnight ago his wizened, 69-year-old body fell prey to another ailment. He began running a fever and developed a blood clot in the lungs. Doctors at New Orleans' Foundation Hospital discovered that he was partially paralyzed...