Word: graftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were very badly burnt; one had to be amputated, but they are trying to save the other. The doctor told Dad it was getting on slowly but as the bone was burnt in one place, it would be a very long job. They are now talking of a skin-graft, so it sounds as though it is going to be saved after all. The doctor told Dad that her stump had healed very well and that it would be ready for an artificial leg within two months. Of course the other leg is the trouble, but he thought she would...
...soon as the victim of brain tumor breathed his last, they cut him open, slit out one of his healthy adrenal glands. Then they gave the dying woman a local anesthetic, grafted the gland in her wasted abdominal muscles, nursed her along with synthetic hormones till the graft took. Within a week the gland was functioning and the woman was well enough to leave the hospital...
...inquisitive pressmen, Stylist Viereck crooned: "I am not anti-British." In his preface, he grates that Britain's Parliament is "hagridden by a few families welded together by ties of gold and blood," that the Empire is "the greatest graft on earth, the juiciest melon that was ever cut." Since the British aristocracy has long prided itself on providing Britain with leaders the book has no great trouble in elaborating on this theme, adding even a genealogical chart...
...reform mayor, looked particularly good compared with that of his opponent, tall and grey-haired, dignified and distant, Charles Quin. San Antonio's mayor for six and a half years before Maverick defeated him in 1939. Maverickos had no trouble making his administrations look like epics of graft, incompetency, black reaction...
...naval powers entitle it to do - the history of its international trade revival in the American Century will date not from the beginning of the war but from 1936. For in that year a seagoing President and a willing Congress set up the Maritime Commission, to replace the ineffectual, graft-ridden Shipping Board, with orders to build up the U. S. Merchant Marine...