Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Less than 50 hours after the takeoff, Commander Sproul stood in the evacuation hospital at Hamhung watching a pint of the precious fluid flow into the veins of a wounded G.I. from Wisconsin. Each pint of Red Cross blood is marked with the city of its origin. Commander Sproul saw the boy grin when he noticed that his pint was marked "Madison...
This small, terrible episode was like many others, all week long, all along the "fluid" Korean front. But all the episodes added up still could not tell the whole story of the Allied disaster, which was more than a loss of men, material and territory (see above). No one publicly guessed at U.S. casualty figures but one officer said they would be "shockers" when revealed...
Shadow & Substance. In Passaic, N.J., Joseph Gardella, arrested for drunken driving, explained that he had been repairing a tavern refrigerator, attributed his condition to fumes from the methyl chloride used as a cooling fluid...
Little Phil Rizzuto was short on size, long on determination. He was not much of a hitter, but he taught himself to be the best bunter in the business. As a shortstop, he had none of the easy, fluid grace of the Cardinals' Marty Marion, nor the rifle arm of the Red Sox's Vern Stephens. But Rizzuto learned to scoot around his short-field like a hopped-up water bug, to make throws from any position short of standing on his head. Within five years after Stengel's blunt advice, the "Scooter" had nailed down...
...fluid part of the blood goes through more centrifuges and chilling processes. Out come a serum globulin (used to prevent or control measles), serum albumin (for treatment of shock), fibrinogen, thrombin and prothrombin - and more components of blood for which medical science has not yet found uses...