Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blood groups are vastly more complex than the familiar indications on blood donors' wallet cards or G.I.s' dog tags.* No fewer than 24 different grouping systems, with an almost infinite number of possible combinations, are recognized, and there are half a dozen or more variants in the Rh group alone. Mrs. Hutson suffered from two abnormalities: her system would make antibody to destroy blood cells carrying the common Rh factor known as "D," which her husband has, and which her expected baby would have. Worse, she would also make antibody against factors...
...longtime (1929-53) dean of Johns Hopkins Medical School, best known for his lifelong fight against antivivisectionists, ("a crippling obstacle to the advance of medical knowledge"), who in 1950 carried his case to Baltimore voters in a referendum, won a lopsided victory and a permanent key to the city dog pound; of complications following a stroke; in Baltimore...
...there are other compensations in the life of a Communist lap dog. Since 1947, Russia has pumped $1,920,000,000 in aid and loans into Bulgaria's predominantly agricultural economy. As a result, Bulgarians have moved off the farms (where 70% of the 8,000,000 population lived just 20 years ago v. 50% today) and into a boomlet of industrialization. To the $838.3 million worth of vegetables, shiny apples, bursting grapes, jams, jellies, butter and milk that Bulgaria exported in 1963 was added a growing stream of batteries, machine tools, pumps, electric hoists, pharmaceuticals and steel products...
Pets & Smoke. Under "Pets," The Book You Shouldn't Need provides the information that if the neighbor's dog is keeping you awake by nightlong barking, you call the Police Department. If the annoyance is merely smelly or the result of bad house training, appeal to the Department of Buildings. But if the neighboring pet turns out to be a jaguar (fond of dropping in through your window unannounced and at odd hours), the appeal is to the Health Department (keeping dangerous animals without proper safeguards...
...Paris, pretender to the Bourbon throne. The American branch of the family produced several distinguished men (including Charles Patterson Bonaparte, Secretary of the Navy under Theodore Roosevelt). But the line petered out with Jerome-Napoleon Patterson Bonaparte in 1943. The great-grandnephew of Napoleon I was taking his dog for a walk in Central Park one afternoon, when he tripped over the leash and suffered a skull fracture that killed...