Word: gr
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...these problems were small beside the enormous political implications. The ultimate collapse of Malaysia and Indo-China could be a coup de grâce to the West's remaining position in all of Asia. The next target might well be the Philippines. Japan would be put under serious new pressure. And the psychological shock waves in Africa and the Latin American countries would be very grave indeed...
...Ralston looped a backhand volley over his head-love-15. McKinley smashed a forehand past Emerson's futilely waving racket-love-30-pounded over a short, cross-court volley-love-40. Then, with a magnificent overhead smash straight between the two Aussies, Ralston administered the coup de grâce. The last game was easy, and the U.S. won the match...
...because 1) he is a liberal, and 2) he helped set up a Kennedy-ordered commission to investigate racial discrimination in the armed forces, later took part in implementing its anti-discrimination proposals. Those same Southerners did not want Yarmolinsky messing around with the Poverty Corps. The coup de gráce was delivered, fittingly, by Georgia's Democratic Representative Phil Landrum, a recent convert to Johnsonism, and the bill's floor manager. Landrum told the House: "Mr. Yarmolinsky will have absolutely nothing to do with the program," added: "I have been told on the highest authority that...
Silk to Silver. The man who did most to demonstrate the effectiveness of IUCDS did not live to see the dawn of the new age that he pioneered. German Gynecologist Ernst Gräfenberg, born in 1881, began inserting rings in the wombs of his patients in the 1920s. He first used rings made of surgical silk, but soon switched to silver wire. The insertion of wire required dilatation of the cervix, but Dr. Gräfenberg reported few complications and fewer unwanted pregnancies. Yet when other doctors decided to follow his example, there were many complaints-mainly excessive bleeding...
Research went on elsewhere. The late Dr. Willi Oppenheimer of Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, who began working on the devices in 1930, thought that something like the gut used in surgical sutures would be less likely than metal to cause bad reactions. He went back to Gräfenberg's rings made from the surgical silk. His 329 patients had a few unwanted pregnancies, but no miscarriages and no malformed babies. There were no cases of permanent sterility, and no diseases, including cancer, that could be attributed to the ring. In Yokohama, Dr. Atsumi Ishihama recorded a total...