Word: jugulars
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...book is essentially a staggering accumulation of minutiae and half-truths based on minutiae. Yale Law Professor Alexander Bickel, himself a critic of the commission, has dismissed Lane's opus as "peripheral and indiscriminate," concluded: "Great trial lawyers, like great detectives, have an instinct for the jugular; Mr. Lane has an instinct for the capillaries...
...dive into the artery, and glides idyllically down a clear stream filled with pink and white corpuscles that look like house-sized globules of tapioca. Then all at once it is swept into a violent whirlpool set up by a fistula that unnaturally connects the carotid artery with the jugular vein. When the hemonauts come out of their spin, they are in the jugular, drifting inexorably away from the brain and toward the heart...
...those who are hurting must develop political power to remove their own hurt. The subtlety lies in tempering power with compassion and humanity. If the slogan 'Black power' can be moved in this direction, then America's Negroes will at long last be reaching at the jugular of oppression...
...ager with him. He opened fire with a pistol, ducked behind a corncrib and ran across the road to a farmhouse. Two shots rang out simultaneously-one fired by Larry Rubeck, 15, from the farmhouse, the other by a state policeman. Hollenbaugh fell dying, blood spurting from a severed jugular. Peggy dashed into the arms of Pittsburgh Newsman (and TIME Stringer) Scott Rombach. "Thank God!" she cried. "I'm safe...
...names, might have enjoyed a last posthumous joke in the last paragraph of his brilliant book. He cites a German who was hung up on the number three: "He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular vein with a razor three times and scrawled with a dying hand on a picture of his wife goodbye, goodbye, good-bye." Even the Irish don't joke about the Trinity except in dead unearnest...