Word: guts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Benedict, was anchored off the Battery landing. Under cover of darkness the President went aboard, followed by Dr. Joseph Bryant [the operating surgeon]. Major O'Reilly of the Army Medical Corps, a dentist and [three other doctors]. We sailed all night down Long Island Sound, anchored in Plum Gut, and the operation was performed the next morning. It was done in the salon of the yacht, the President sitting upon a chair. ... On this occasion we put our aprons over our street clothes but we did boil the instruments." Cleveland lived for 15 years, died of something else...
...pitch for calking, used mountain ash for hardwood. He set Russians and natives digging for coal and iron, made waterproof paint from whale oil and red ocher. His ship had three masts, two decks. For sails Baranov commandeered tents, trousers, jackets, sewed them into great sheets with seal gut thread...
Good sequence: Woolley's last waif, the half-Jewish niece of a Gestapo agent, is brought to the dock for transshipment to the U.S. with the help of the Piper. She heils Hitler. Her Gestapo uncle reproves her. "Nicht mehr Heil Hitler?" she asks. "Nein," warns her uncle. "Gut!" says the solemn little girl...
...Mighty Gut. A termite digests cellulose with the help of the swarms of protozoa (one-celled animals) which teem in its guts. Since termites reduce cellulose (the toughest part of plants) to humus and provide food for new plants, their destruction of wood is really a vital part of the vegetative cycle of growth and decay...
...sometimes, when much damage has been done, it is necessary to cut out the section of damaged gut, patch the whole ends together again. As much as six feet of small intestine, he said, "have been removed with success." Chiefly responsible for the great reduction in mortality are: 1) the liberal use of sulfa drugs, both sprinkled on the wounds and taken internally; 2) massive blood transfusions-in some cases as much as eleven pints-which make possible bolder operations than were risked in World...