Word: heals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sisters, 10 and 12, had been bothered for months with skin abscesses that would not heal despite treatment with the most powerful antibiotics. They were taken to Children's Memorial Hospital in Oklahoma City. There Dr. Riley and colleagues identified the cause of the girls' illness as a strain of Staphylococcus aureus (the commonest germ in wounds and boils) that resists the killing powers of penicillin and many other drugs. Fortunately, the strain was sensitive to the antibiotic vancomycin, and the girls were soon on the mend. But where had they picked up the infection...
...geologists have another explanation. In some past age a strip of land 120 miles long and up to 30 miles wide sank below the surrounding land and got cracked up in the process. The trench was later filled partially with silt and volcanic debris, but the cracks did not heal. They still lead down toward molten rock perhaps 30,000 ft. below the surface...
...chilling desolation of spirit in which futility is challenged only by fatalism. Of Alfred Eaton, as of Cozzens' Arthur Winner, it can be said that he achieves a kind of strength through joylessness except that with O'Hara's Eaton the licked wounds never quite heal...
Contrary to some popular belief, there is an operating Christian Church in China. But there has been a great breach between the missions of the China mainland and the West. Newbigin hoped that an attempt will be made to heal this breach, rather than to send more missionaries from the West to impress Western viewpoints upon China...
Briggs is recovering from a severe charley horse which he sustained only seconds before Ravenel's injury. His leg has caused him trouble in nearly every game this year, and the week-to-week pounding has not given it ample opportunity to heal...