Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experimental operations with a little black and white mongrel. Of the two great veins carrying blood back to the heart, they tied off the upper one and diverted its flow directly into the pulmonary artery leading to the right lung-thus bypassing the right side of the heart. The dog got along fine. When Kent Murray, now seven, entered the hospital last February, Dr. Glenn was ready to try the technique on a human patient...
Nasser's Middle East News Agency gleefully described the assassination of Crown Prince Abdul Illah: "The people dragged Abdul Illah's body into the street like that of a dog and tore it limb from limb." Then the mobs burned the body. It was Abdul Illah who ruled Iraq as regent until Feisal became King...
...cotton-tipped swabs in three colors: white, pink and chartreuse. White and pink were fine; chartreuse flopped because it reminded women of baby's soiled diapers. In many cases the brighter-and sometimes the more incongruous-the package, the greater the appeal. California's Thoro-fed Dog Food watched sales jump 40% when it wrapped Fido's dinner in gleaming gold foil. Among the new gimmicks: multiple-unit "specials," with three, six and twelve items in a pack. One Midwest chain reports that it sold only nine cans of sauerkraut a week at a dime apiece...
...execution list (TIME, June 30), alongside Imre Nagy, stood the name of Miklos Gimes, ex-Stalinist journalist who became one of Hungary's leading anti-Reds. Countless others are in prison, notably Hungary's top novelist, Tibor Dery, 64; his latest book, Niki, the Story of a Dog, which is really a quiet indictment of the police state, will be published in the U.S. this fall. What has irked the puppet Kadar regime more and more in recent months is the "silent strike" of Hungary's unjailed writers, who refuse to raise a pen in salute...
Spaniel in the Lions' Den. In Chicago, Arsonist Isaac Wilson completely destroyed the Christ Temple Church of the Pentecostal Assembly of the World, later offered the explanation that he had been refused permission to take his dog to Sunday services...