Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That veteran of many a campaign tea party, Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy, downed coffee and cake on a four-day swing through The Bronx, Brooklyn and Long Island, and pulled out one organ stop farther than anyone else has. Referring to the wartime deaths of her eldest son Joe and her son-in-law, Rose Kennedy told the housewives: "Jack knows the sorrow, the grief, the tears and the heartbreaking grief and loneliness that come to a family when a mother has lost her eldest son and a young bride has lost her bridegroom. So I know that Jack will...
...ORGAN TOUR--Bill Bechhoeffer presents music for the organ...
...world around it as a dog or human would. But when its gravity-detecting statocyst is removed, it becomes virtually helpless. Apparently its system of telling an object's orientation is to keep its two eyes level, which it does with the help of the statocyst. If this organ is lost, the eyes get out of level, and the octopus no longer knows which way is up -or, for that matter, down. Humans and other higher vertebrates are not handicapped in this way. Their more elaborate brains make allowance for the position of the eyes and keep the world...
...intestinal wall that sometimes develop where blood vessels enter. Bacteria multiply in the waste, and the intestinal wall becomes inflamed and infected. Untreated, the infection may rupture and form an abscess outside the wall of the colon. A fistula is an abnormal passage that burrows into another organ or to the outside of the body. Symptoms in severe cases of diverticulitis:* nausea, vomiting, pain, constipation or diarrhea, chills and fever. Possible treatments: antibiotics, special diet, surgery...
...Organ Recital...