Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...divisions jumped off, MacArthur's Constellation, the SCAP, landed on Sinanju's bumpy airfield. Welcomed by a cluster of his top brass, the general climbed into a jeep and pulled the hood of his pile-lined parka over his head. In the back seat rode the Eighth Army's Lieut. General Walton Walker...
...abated Communist offensive, which already has rolled to U.S. Eighth Army back 40 miles, appeared developing against Songchon. It guards the flank of U.N. defenses 30 miles north of Pyongyang...
Last week, a keen-minded Harvard physician offered the most convincing explanation yet of mongolism. It seems, said Dr. Theodore H. Ingalls at the New York Academy of Medicine, to be the result of an injury or shock to the fetus at about the eighth week of pregnancy. This does not mean that the cause is always the same type of injury or shock. In fact, said Dr. Ingalls, the trouble with researchers who have been looking for a single, simple cause is that they were like the three blind men describing an elephant: one found it all foot, another...
...vital clue from analyzing them: the ears are usually malformed, there may be opacities in the eye lens, one of the nasal bones is usually absent, and the middle phalanx of the fifth finger is generally stunted. The clue: all these signs affect tissues which develop at about the eighth week of fetal life. In mongolism victims, the body structures formed earlier than that are usually normal, said Dr. Ingalls, and so are those formed later...
...them to oxygen lack (artificial "high altitude") for five hours on certain days of their pregnancies. Mice, unlike men, do not suffer from mongolism. But Dr. Ingalls found skull defects (actually worse than mongolism) in about a third of the litters which had been starved of oxygen on the eighth day of development. Lack of oxygen on the twelfth day gave them harelip, on the 14th day, cleft palate...