Word: fluidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great Britain are to begin diplomatic conversations soon, in this country. These will attempt to iron out the problems arising from: 1) years of British diplomatic control of the Middle East, where the U.S. as a government (not as an oil producer) is a newcomer; 2) the inordinately "fluid" political situation there, where Kings, Sheiks, Moslems and Zionists are involved...
...typical case (a child under two), Dr. Alexander estimates the severity of the infection by measuring the sugar and chloride in the patient's spinal fluid. If the level is low, the infection is severe. Treatment begins with an injection of sulfadiazine and a continuous slow drip of salt solution into a vein. After the drip has gone on for about four hours, a measured amount of the special rabbit serum is put into the reservoir of weak salt solution. The amount used depends on the amount of infection. All the serum is given in two hours...
...Link and co-workers went on to get Dicumarol in pure form and then to synthesize it. They found that in the body it makes salicylic acid. Another anticoagulant, heparin, was already on the market. It is also used to keep donors' blood fluid until it can be processed. But it is an expensive extract of ox lung and liver, must be given by injection, and is hard to control. Therefore surgeons (who worry lest a fatal clot undo their work) took up Dicumarol...
...must also be considerable evil and brutality; therefore God must agree to wink at a reasonable modicum of wickedness. Wars and a minimum of chicanery must be permitted, though the party of the second part agreed to find good moral reasons for them. . . . So Christianity has been an embalming fluid that has preserved the peasant virtues of England down to this generation...
...that line were not held, an even bigger question mark would curl around Franklin Roosevelt's fluid budget for fiscal...