Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When once I had trouble in my heart to go to the U.S., the morning of Sept. 10 in Pusan a dog bit my leg just at the entrance of a church. I never touched the dog, never saw it before I was bitten. Then I saw blood on my leg. That tune my tired heart heard His voice saying: 'Where are you going...
...shakes a metaphor like a wet dog shaking himself dry. A man is broken "on the wheel of a dream"; the night wind passes "like a sail across/ A blind man's eye"; an old house "looks as though the walls had cried themselves/ To sleep"; a happy character "sits and purrs/ As though the morning were a saucer of milk"; the fields of grain move "like a lion's mane"; flowers gather "like pilgrims in the aisles of the sun"; the morning leaves "the sunlight on my step like any normal/ Tradesman." Fry's most persistent...
...before Election Day, surgeons at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore performed their thousandth "blue baby" operation. The technique, which has saved many more thousands of lives elsewhere, was developed at Johns Hopkins by two famed doctors, Alfred Blalock and Helen Taussig, in a long course of experimenting on dogs. The dogs got the same care, the same anesthesia, as would a human patient. Not all the dogs died-if they had, the experiment would have been a failure. For example, Anna, now a laboratory pet, is as well today as 3^-year-old Gene Haskins Jr. (see cut), whose...
...spite of these facts, the voters of Baltimore were invited last week to deny to medical schools the strays in the dog pounds which are doomed to be gassed anyway. The voters were invited also to set up a "humane commission" which, by legal sleight of hand, could have crippled research in the city on any animals...
...story. Antivivisectionist campaigns had denied an adequate supply of pound animals to researchers, and work was slowed in some of the most advanced research-much of it (for the Atomic Energy Commission) into the effects of radiation. Dr. Harry Goldblatt, who was shot at in 1948 by a fanatic dog-lover, was also hamstrung in his efforts to develop an artificial heart-lung apparatus...