Word: fluids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...muscular 6 ft., 190 Ibs., Washington whips his 34-oz. bat across the plate with a fluid, level swing, rifling his line drives in all directions. He has startling speed (32 stolen bases so far this year...
...backed up by animal research, which shows that ethanol, the intoxicating ingredient in liquor, is capable of causing birth defects in chicks and rats. Studies of the fetuses of alcoholic mothers also reveal that ethanol easily crosses the placenta from mother to child. Smith reports that the amniotic fluid that had surrounded one of the babies he examined had a definite odor of ethanol. A second baby born to an alcoholic mother emerged from the womb with the smell of ethanol on his breath. A third was in even worse shape. At birth, his blood contained an ethanol level...
Literal descriptions and interpretations make many novels sound better than they are. With Ragtime, just the opposite is true. Its lyric tone, fluid structure and vigorous rhythms give it a musical quality that explanation mutes. In Doctorow's hands, the nation's secular fall from grace is no catalogue of sin. no mere tour de force; the novelist has managed to seize the strands of actuality and transform them into a fabulous tale...
...unsuccessful in denying the claims of his father's three illegitimate children to a share in the estate. Young Picasso lived wanly in the massive shadow of his father, helping out occasionally as handyman and chauffeur. His own son, Pablito, died in agony three months after drinking bleaching fluid because he was barred from his grandfather's villa when the artist died...
Bobby Massie is more fortunate than most hemophiliacs. His parents were not wealthy, but they were determined. They swallowed their pride and ran campaigns to collect the blood he needed, pleading with friends, relatives and even strangers for donations of the vital fluid. (The problem, writes Robert, was not in being grateful, but in having to be grateful: "Nobody likes to beg for charity. And begging for blood is just as hard, maybe harder, than begging for money.") They concealed their fears and sent him to school, then hid their hurt when his classmates called him "leather legs" because...