Word: marrowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mobilization to the Department of Defense, leaving only a small advisory cadre, the Office of Emergency Planning, under the direction of Frank Ellis, former OCDM chief. An aroused Congress-which for years had regarded civil defense almost as a laughing matter and had annually cut its appropriations to the marrow-quickly gave the Administration the $207 million it requested for the revitalized program. In the Pentagon, the new Office of Civil Defense civilian staff was beefed up by engineers and technicians from the armed forces, and a vast new blueprint for safeguarding the U.S. public is being drawn up. Assistant...
...practical use of 5-fluorouracil is by no means so simple as the theory. There are other body cells that multiply about as fast as cancer cells, and therefore need a lot of uracil, notably those in the bone marrow, which makes blood cells, and those in the lining of the digestive tract. Soon after 5-fluorouracil has attacked the cancer, it damages these vital, normal cells. Patients begin to suffer from vomiting. At the first sign of inflammation and ulceration in the mouth, doctors stop the drug. Usually they try to give heavy doses (injected into an arm vein...
...Mere Vaudevillian." In writing his decisions. Hand followed the meticulous painstaking procedure that he demanded in his court. He invariably wrote three or four drafts of every opinion in longhand on yellow foolscap before the language and reasoning finally satisfied him. His opinions cut to the marrow of the issue and proceeded eloquently but rapidly to the point. Hand's famed 28-page opinion on United States v. Aluminum Co. of America, in which he ruled that "good" monopolies had no more legality than "bad" monopolies, was distilled from 40,000 pages and four years of testimony, has been...
...wanted to make $5,000 a week," did well enough to leave $631,000 to his daughters by Divorced Wife Marjorie Hoshelle. The estate could grow even bigger if malpractice is proved in a current investigation of his death-attributed to shock resulting from staphylococcal septicemia. pneumonitis and bone-marrow depression-particularly in California, where the tall damage claims grow...
...woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived ... 7 wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world...