Word: extract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...21st Century doesn't always startle its audience to this extent, it invariably manages to give it pause. In earlier programs, it photographed an operable mechanical grasshopper that man will use on the moon, and an esoteric airtight container that will extract water from moon rock by heating it to 300° C. Sometimes the producers are lucky enough to be on hand for a rare event, as in a soon-to-be-shown film of a kidney transplant at Cleveland Clinic...
Through it all, Syria trumpeted a bitterly anti-Western line, even to the extent of spreading word that CIA agents were prowling the countryside, vampirelike, to extract Syrian blood for transfusions to wounded G.I.s in Viet...
Lyndon Johnson will certainly find it far more difficult to extract cooperation and cash from the 90th Congress, which convenes next week, than from the compliant, free-spending 89th. The three-seat Democratic loss in the Senate (the new lineup: 64 v. 36) will result mainly in strengthening the Republicans' moderate-liberal wing. The G.O.P. gain of 47 House seats in the November election, which cuts the Democratic advantage to 248 v. 187, gives the Republicans their strongest House delegation since 1957-58 and nudges the House back toward its traditional role of skeptic. A recent survey by Congressional...
...resulting extract, he said, caused identical cancers when it was injected into other hens. Since he was sure he had removed all cancer cells from the extract, Dr. Rous was thus convinced that what was left must be a filter able virus...
...massive transfusion of blood immediately after birth is sometimes too late to save the child. And for such cases doctors have worked out a delicate technique for transfusion in utero. Before they try such major treatment, however, they insert a needle through the mother's abdomen to extract a sample of the amniotic fluid in which the fetus is floating. That sample may help to determine the severity of the Rh problem...