Word: cording
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...pattern of abdominal muscles, Fallopian tubes, ovaries. The mouth of the uterus was knitted in a purl stitch, the body in plain stitch. Inside the womb was a rubber doll, encased in a bag of Cellophane, attached to the placenta (a dark red knitted cap) by an umbilical cord of red corrugated rubber balloons...
...State Cordell Hull is what to do about official Nazi representatives in the U. S. The activities of two underlings have been so brazen that he has had to boot them out.* But Mr. Hull has to be careful when he kicks, lest he break the already taut cord of diplomatic relations with Hitler. U. S. representatives would then in turn be booted out of Germany, and the U. S. be deprived of one of its few remaining listening posts in Europe. The zeal of the Dies Committee has not made Mr. Hull's life any easier in this...
...nowhere near ready to try murine virus on human beings. But they think they have discovered an entirely new approach to polio immunity-fighting one virus with another. It may be, they speculated, that murine virus, which is relatively harmless to monkeys, rapidly settles in their brain and spinal cord, "blockading" the deadly polio virus...
...sensation of pain. If the skin in a limited area is dulled, the neurologist knows that only a surface nerve is injured. If the patient is analgesic over a wide area, several nerves or even part of his brain may be damaged. By carefully eliminating any possibility of spinal cord or nerve injury, the neurologist may locate the tumor or injury in the upper right-hand surface of the brain...
...fatigue. Hour after hour, day after day, he harangued, exhorted, pleaded with tiny groups from the train's rear platform. Several times, noting small clusters of people who had wandered down to the tracks to hold up their babies as the train went by, he jerked the bell cord, backed up the train, and blasted away with a lengthy speech before the embarrassed little groups. The day-long strain on his voice and endurance was a constant anxiety to his handlers. But the brute endurance of his big frame and the tireless will to say his say kept...