Word: colon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rescue boats and helicopters combed the crash area, but by dawn only bits of debris had been recovered. Clemente, three crew members and another passenger had perished. Governor-elect Rafael Hernandez Colon immediately canceled the formal ball that was to have followed his inauguration last week, and three days of mourning were declared. "Roberto died serving his fellow man," Colon said. "Our youth loses an idol. Our people lose one of their glories...
...four-and-a-half-mile mark on the five-mile course, Keough finally broke away from Colon, with whom he had been running for the whole meet. "I thought they had agreed to finish in a dead heat," commented...
Hartnett had been expected to be Keough's male competitor. The Villaneva helpful and the Manhattan champ had trained together in Ireland for the Olympics, and had taken turns in defeating each other in past meets. By besting Hartnett, Colon assured, the Jaspers of their overwhelming margin of victory...
...repertoire of exercises similar to the Audicon Plantar and loosely based on Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Muslim Sufism and Tibetan Lamaism. Exercises called "Mentations" require the student to "concentrate your attention into each separate section" of the body for a prescribed time: 8 minutes 40 seconds for the colon and kidneys, 10 minutes 45 seconds for the liver, and so on. "Active in the World" calls for lying motionless, forearms supported on elbows, palms facing the feet, while feeling "the tissues of your body actively engaged in the dance of Life." The instructions for "Passive in the Cosmos" specify...
...hour period last May. During the 90-minute operations, Drouin apparently became confused. Working "up to his elbows," as he put it later, he mixed up the different clamps he used to mark the ends of the bypassed small intestine. As a result, he hooked the ileum to the colon, connected the end of the small intestine to the jejunum (see diagram...