Word: kidney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experience." His tentative defense pairs are Code with sophomore Tim Smith, junior Brad Kwong with freshman Butch Cutone, who looked very sharp against the Olympians, and Bill Cleary Jr., who played for the JV last year, with freshman Randy Taylor With Code missing the opener because of a bruised kidney suffere in the loss to the Olympic squad, those pairs will be shuffled for tonight...
Word began to circulate in Moscow and Eastern Europe that the Soviet leader was suffering from kidney disease. Following the cancellation of his Bulgarian visit, East European officials began to say that Andropov was undergoing kidney dialysis. One theory making the rounds last week was that he had undergone surgery. According to some rumors, Andropov's son Igor left Helsinki, where he was a member of a Soviet diplomatic delegation, to be at his father's side...
Specialties that deserve an honorable place on the American table include kulebyaka, the glorious salmon pie described by Chekhov as "shameless in its nakedness, a temptation to sin"; pirozhki, the more plebeian meat or vegetable pies; kidney and dill pickle soup; Azerbaidzhan lamb patties; veal stew with cherries; Ukrainian honey cake; smetannik, a rich pie of sour cream, jam and nuts; and the celebrated Guriev kasha, a thickened compote of brandied fruits. To round out a Russian banquet, Goldstein provides instructions for a dozen deliciously flavored vodkas, and with them a toast to the meal: Eshte, eshte na zdorovye...
...type causes more than the others combined. Within each type there are many different strains. The Salk vaccine is made by taking a representative strain of each type and growing it-till it reaches many times its original strength-in a broth made with snips of monkey kidney. (To keep production going, 4,000 monkeys a month are flown in from India and the Philippines.) Then the virus in each deadly brew is killed with formaldehyde. Strangely, although the virus particles now lose their power to multiply or to cause disease, they keep their power to stimulate a higher animal...
...youngest sibling, Tommy (Dennis Christopher), forms the crux of the conflict. Tommy suffers from a hereditary kidney ailment, and needs a transplant--preferably from within the family--to survive. His only prospects are Brother Earl (Gary Kian), an over-aged, childlike buffoon; brother James (Pat MacNamara), a reformed alcoholic and aspiring academic; and Harry (Frank Converse), the only realistic possibility, a Beacon Hill lawyer married into wealth and long ago estranged from the family. Compounding the tension is the elder McMillan (Carroll O'Connor), an aging Irish head-of-the-local who believes firmly in organized labor, romanticizes the good...