Word: extract
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...Russian government believes it must make concessions, it would rather dress them up in conference form than as preliminaries to a conference. The ritual of bargaining is important to the national honor. The country that gives in likes to go through the motions, at least, of trying to extract concessions from the victor...
Irma Marie Miller, 29, a waitress, had spent the last ten years in the shadow of the hospital. Her thyroid and parathyroids had been removed for fear of a fatal dis ease. She needed daily doses of thyroid extract. And to make up for the loss of the parathyroids, which control the body's use of calcium, she had to visit the hospital four times a day. on the average, for injections of calcium to save her from muscular spasms which might have choked her to death...
...days later, and again after four months, tests with a tiny dose of radioactive iodine and a Geiger counter showed that the oddly placed thyroid was functioning. Irma Miller has needed no more thyroid extract or calcium injections. She is going to be married, and Dr. Sterling is going to give the bride away...
...most solid dish in a meal, some form of beef should be eaten. Either with pea pods or bean sprouts, the sauted slices of beef have a rich accompanying oyster sauce made from an extract of oysters and imported from China. The contrast between crisp green vegetables and tangy cooked meat is both delighteful and surprising...
...certain small percentage of obstetricians hold themselves unalterably (and irrationally) opposed to natural childbirth, basing their objections on flimsy scientific reasoning, and insist on complete anesthesia during delivery so that they can manually extract the child. Their unconscious motivation: that they cannot bear to allow a woman to do something which they want to do themselves; in the last analysis, they insist that they must bear the baby...