Word: fat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inner layer (the epicardium). Then he wraps the heart in what amounts to a blanket of tissue that is rich in blood vessels. To get this material, he cuts through the diaphragm and takes out a 6-inch by 10-inch piece of the omentum, the apron of fat that lies over the intestines. Dr. Vineberg closes the diaphragm incision and wraps the omentum around the heart. Although it has been cut away from its natural blood supply, it soon develops new arterial and venous connections, and shares its generous blood flow with the heart muscle...
...pleasant coastal plain of Binh Dinh has been a private Communist demiparadise of palm-topped villages and emerald paddies. But underneath paradise were the ubiquitous mole holes of the Viet Cong -an estimated 3,000 strong in the area. It was, as one U.S. officer put it, "V.C. Fat City-mighty pleasant living for them." That came to an abrupt end early one rainy morning when the first helicopter assault forces of the 1st Air Cav took off from Moore's staging area, called "Dog," and headed for LZ-4, a landing zone nestled between two villages...
...Price of Fat Dogs. Deutschmarks never change hands in the ransom deals. Ulbricht & Co. prefer to tap the cornucopia of West German industry for trucks and spare parts, and coffee, butter and citrus fruit, which East Germany considers "luxury" consumer goods. With time, a pricing system has evolved. Young prisoners such as Zippel and Trochim can be sprung for 15,000 Deutschmarks ($3,750), while the dicke Hünde (fat dogs) convicted of subversion and espionage pull down as much as $10,000 apiece...
...three years, the village of Krestova in British Columbia's bleak, windswept Kootenay 'hills lay empty as a ghost town. Winter snows blanketed the black hulls of bathtubs, the skeletons of old beds, the charred frames of burnt-out houses. Wolves loped where the valleys once ran fat with cattle, and local ranchers gave the town a wide berth. Then, last week, life returned to Krestova (which in Russian means "City of the Cross"). A band of burly, hard-eyed men and women with thick Russian accents trickled back to the Kootenays. The Doukhobors were coming home...
...gothic. Moldering mansions are in short supply Down Under, but White does what he can with "gothic" grass around the Brown house, wormy quince trees, and the house itself, which is a sort of Greek Revival temple done in clapboard. It is amazing what can be done with mutton fat, bad drains, and skeins from bowls of bread and milk to convey the squalor of life and the hatred of it that is proper to fiction of this genre...