Word: clotted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gathering. In Palm Beach the President conferred with his wife, his mother, Rose Kennedy, and other members of the family. From his father's three doctors he learned more details about the fact that Joseph Kennedy had suffered an intracranial thrombosis, a blood clot in an artery in the brain. A quickly performed arteriogram-dye injected into the main artery of the neck and photographed by X ray as it flows through the vessels of the brain-had revealed the thrombosis to be in the left cerebral hemisphere, and inoperable. There was some paralysis in Kennedy's right...
When he is on the attack, which is most of the time, Menon's expression is ferretlike. Brain surgery last October for a blood clot deprived him of his elaborately curled silver locks, making his looks even fiercer. Though he has no known history of any leg ailment, he constantly brandishes a cane as if it were a weapon. A teetotaler and vegetarian, Menon, 64, dresses with Savile Row impeccability at the U.N.; at home in India, he wears a loose-fitting, collarless jibbah in which, says one Western observer, "he looks like Boris Karloff playing John the Baptist...
Died. James Thurber, 66, creator of Walter Mitty and chronicler of the war between the sexes; a month after emergency surgery for a blood clot on the brain; in Manhattan...
...unicorn nibbled its last rose, and left the garden. But readers knew well enough what they had seen. James Thurber, who died at 66 last week, a month after an emergency operation to relieve a blood clot on the brain, was an aphorist of sad truths who mourned his times with laughter...
...million Americans who have had heart attacks or strokes caused by blood clots now take anti-clotting drugs regularly to cut down the danger of recurrences. But their blood takes so much longer to clot that dental and other surgeons are confronted with a dilemma: Should they keep a patient on the anticoagulant drug during an operation and run the risk of severe (perhaps fatal) bleeding, or should they take him off the drug for a few days and run the risk of clotting in an artery of the heart or brain? Such authorities as the New England Journal...