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They tied a tourniquet on a rabbit's hind leg, injected India ink or other opaque fluids into its arteries (to make the blood flow visible) and watched the results by X ray. The experiments soon solved the "crush syndrome" mystery: prolonged pressure on the leg arteries produced spasms of nearby blood vessels, which, among other things, blocked the normal circulation in the kidneys...
...true insect. Ticks and spiders have eight legs; bona fide insects have only six, the legal limit set by science. The tick's extra pair of legs serves him well. When a tick senses an approaching meal, he hangs on to a low bush by his two hind legs and gropes hopefully with the other six. If, animal or man brushes past the bush, the tick grabs on with all eight legs, makes for the skin. Having attached himself, the tick bores in with his hard snout and begins to suck blood...
Crusaders. "Japan," rhapsodized Baldwin, "is an uplifting experience. It is a crusade." General MacArthur feels that he has an almost mystical duty to "purge the soul of the Japanese people. The Japanese are learning to stand up on their hind legs to authority." As avid to ape Western political and social forms as they once were to imitate Western industrial techniques, the Japanese are trying everything from open forum debating to the Virginia reel...
...saying it can't happen to me. . . . Nineteen columns out of 20 I expect to be peddling that ever-lovin' popcorn and doing my old soft shoe dance. But every so often, when I feel like hollering, I'm going to stand up on my hind legs and holler. I'm not saying my palaverings rate being carved on the pyramids...
...first the skeptics said, as Samuel Johnson said of a dog walking on his hind legs: "It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." In Zurich, an oboist tested Pierino by deliberately playing a false note during rehearsal. The bambino stopped the orchestra, sternly told the oboist to get back on the track...