Word: marrowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girls who are facing mobs today come out of a long line of improbable aristocrats-the only genuine aristocrats this country has produced . . . The Negro's past, of rope, fire, torture, castration, infanticide, rape; death and humiliation; fear by day and night, fear as deep as the marrow of the bone; doubt that he was worthy of life, since everyone around him denied it; sorrow for his women, for his kinfolk, for his children, who needed his protection, and whom he could not protect; rage, hatred, and murder, hatred for white men so deep that it often turned against...
...From the Marrow. For at least two years, Mrs. Roosevelt had been anemic. Doctors established that her bone marrow was not producing enough blood cells, but why this was they had no idea. Each time her hemoglobin and hematocrit (red-cell concentration) readings fell alarmingly low, a blood transfusion lifted them above the danger level. Early this year, she was put on a regular dosage of cortisone-type hormones. This treatment carried the risk of reducing her resistance to infections. Not surprisingly, Mrs. Roosevelt began to run a fever. Nobody knew what was causing it. The common everyday infections, from...
...fever persisted; but only on the promise that it would be a short stay was Mrs. Roosevelt persuaded to go into Manhattan's famed Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. There, a specimen of Mrs. Roosevelt's bone marrow-the body's main factory for various elements in the blood-was taken by puncturing a hipbone with a big hypodermic needle. The hematologists who examined the marrow smears under the micro scope could not agree. Though there were enough cells present to rule out aplastic anemia, one of the deadliest forms of the disease, some of the experts thought...
About a week before she died, a culture inoculated with Mrs. Roosevelt's bone marrow produced the bacilli of tuberculosis. This was almost certain proof that TB had been the mysterious and stubborn lung infection, and an immediate cause of her fever. Most of the dozens of doctors called in on the case agreed that in patients of Mrs. Roosevelt's age, it is not unusual to find the blood-forming mechanism out of kilter in some obscure fashion. And in anybody as determined to keep going as she was, it was not surprising that TB germs (which...
Single Stitches. Lying on the operating table beside its owner, the arm was still attached only by suture threads. To fix it firmly, an orthopedic surgeon drove a stainless-steel rod into the broken upper end of the humerus, through its squishy marrow center, until the end of the rod projected into the shoulder. He fitted the broken bone ends together, pushing the rod down into the marrow of the undamaged lower bone. If new bone grows well enough to make a solid union, the rod may later be withdrawn; otherwise it will be left in place...