Word: jugulars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then the doctors learned the worst: each baby, to have a complete and independent circulatory system, should have had a big vein (unaptly called a sagittal sinus) running fore & aft along the top of his brain to gather blood from smaller vessels and deliver it, through the jugular, back to the heart. The twins had only one. There was no way to divide it, no way to make another. One baby had to get it, and with it, a good chance to survive. The other must almost certainly perish. Little Rodney had the better chance to live, anyway...
...Must Have a Leadership . . ." On Boston Common he drew a crowd which police said was as large as those that turned out for Al Smith or F.D.R. Ike concentrated on the threat of "godless Communism," which "strikes at the jugular vein of freedom...
Revolutionary Conservative. Adams had one of the best private libraries of any American of his day, and he was no passive reader. He never curled up peaceably with a book; he lunged for the jugular of its meaning. The struggle took place in the margins of his books, where he scribbled thousands of comments-talking back to the great minds of all time and especially those of the 18th century...
Possibly because of the film's obvious earnestness and calmly informative narration, no St. Louis moviegoer has protested its plentiful shots of bare-breasted women and unadorned men or its savagely raw scenes, e.g., as a test of manhood, a young warrior taps the jugular vein of a bound cow, lets the blood flow into a gourd and gulps it down...