Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expect Harry and Ike didn't know they had anything in common...
Before sending his cable, Kubitschek called together 400 top-ranking military men to explain Brazil's relations with the U.S. "We recognize," he said, "the heavy burden borne by the U.S. in the common battle for the defense of the West and our civilization's highest values. We must maintain with the great North American republic the indestructible relations which have become our common heritage and which must not be weakened...
Besieged by patients seeking remedies for common midsummer ills, U.S. doctors this year have more fancy preparations than ever to work with, but find themselves caught in a crossfire of controversy over safety and effectiveness...
...matched male subordinates. So did the combination of high blood pressure with heart-and-artery disease: 2.8% compared with 3.7% of subordinates. Most surprising, arteriosclerosis of the kind that leads to heart attacks-fictionally supposed to be the greatest killer of tycoons -was more than twice as common among their minions, and generalized hardening of the arteries was almost three times as common...
...vein near its normal entrance to the auricle. In this way, 30% to 40% of Kent's venous blood (the proportion carried by the superior vena cava) bypassed the right heart completely, went directly to the lungs for oxygenation, then into the left heart. In the common ventricle it was still mixed with venous blood from the inferior vena cava, but the proportion of well-oxygenated blood was more favorable...