Word: leaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctors tried to find the cause, veins, arteries and capillaries in Harris' intestinal tract began to leak blood. To keep alive, Harris had to have whole blood and plenty of it. The problem was Harris' comparatively rare (about one out of 100) blood type, B-RH Negative...
...some immediate problems, notably a $75 million rise in state operating costs, which might require an increase in state income taxes. Basically, he inherited an exceedingly sound administration from retiring Republican Governor Thomas E. Dewey. When Dewey left Albany, after twelve years in office, there was a leak...
...hour later Gamal Abdel Nasser sat unhurt in the Alexandria lawyers' club sipping a lemonade, once more apparently his old, softspoken, self-possessed self. The stain on his tunic turned out to be not blood but a fountain pen leak. The gunman cowered in jail and under police persuasion admitted he was Mahmoud...
...considered their own special bailiwick, away from Radical Socialist Léon Martinaud-Déplat and gave it to young, energetic Francois Mitterrand of the moderate, splinter-sized Democratic and Socialist Resistance Union. The bitterness was quickly evident. Though Martinaud-Déplat had learned of the first leak before Mendès took office, he neglected to tell his successor Mitterrand about it. Bitterness increased as Mitterrand began cleaning out Martinaud-Déplat's protégés, fired Prefect of Police Jean Baylot and demoted Dides from his Red-hunting job. Then...
...that was the plan, it had misfired. The discovery that the first leak had occurred during Laniel's government diverted the onus from Mendes personally, and the arrest of Turpin and Labrusse scotched the innuendoes that Mitterrand was willing to be overtolerant to Communist infiltration of the government...