Word: insertion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week the Democrats got from Democrat Powell (who bolted to Ike in 1956) the first returns on how the Arkansas mess might sound in political language. Said Powell to his packed Abyssinian Baptist Church in Manhattan: "I must sharply condemn my fellow Democrats for daring to insert politics into this sensitive question. How dare Adlai Stevenson criticize Eisenhower when just eight days before, on a national telecast, he told the national audience that he could do nothing if he was President in the present crisis? . . . And, finally, let's not forget that Faubus is a Democrat...
...Baltic. Dexter's coal reached Newcastle in the middle of a coal strike; his profits were "enormous." Most memorable, however, is his treatise, A Pickle for the Knowing Ones, which is unpunctuated throughout but in later printings contains a page of mixed punctuation marks for the reader to insert wherever he pleases...
Yardling conservatives managed to insert a clause specifying that long socks be worn with the shorts, but several committeemen still were not satisfied. "The wearing of trousers is the last thread of tradition left at Harvard," protested Robert J. Wyman '60. Harvard Union officials still must approve the rule change...
...Some chill their patients to a body temperature 10° or more below normal. Others may plunge a needle into a patient's heart and deliberately stop its beat for as long as they need to work inside it. Generally, they cut, stitch, stretch, graft, rebuild and insert gadgets in the heart with ever-growing success-although the death rate inevitably is high in heroic operations on patients already in poor condition...
...only the body." In the hospital room the struggle was fought with blood transfusions, morphine injections, intravenous feeding, catheterizations. The child was wrenched with pain, grew more and more emaciated as bedsores spread across her sensitive skin, and it became increasingly difficult to find places to insert the daily needles. But there were pauses, too, when death drew back as if exhausted. There were enough of these precious moments for the creation of rituals. Each night mother and daughter watched for the flights of starlings that flooded past their window. After the starlings came the lights of the city laying...