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...needed. Around his waist McDonald wears an insulin pump the size of a pager, which infuses the hormone through a slender needle positioned just below his skin. Anticipating meals, McDonald can increase the amount of insulin he receives by dialing in a number. McDonald carries with him a finger pricker and a pocket-size glucose monitoring machine. Eight times a day he checks the level of glucose in his blood and adjusts his insulin pump accordingly...
Still, after struggling through jungle warfare on ice--Yale's chippy, pricker-bush defense--busing to Princeton and Cornell will seem like a day at the beach to the icemen. "That was just atrocious out there." Harvard coach Billy Cleary said after the game. "Kids swinging sticks, hitting after the whistle -- it's a disgrace...
General Clay has become the military's conscience pricker of the Home Front. In any decision on reconversion, General Clay will probably be on the side of such Cromwellians as Under Secretary of War Bob Patterson and Lieut. General Somervell. They want a tough, all-out war against Japan with a minimum of reconversion. Last week theirs were the voices WPB had to hear as it prepared for the fearsome job of refitting the U.S. production machine for the knockout blow against Japan. That blow would not be delivered in one swift assault; it might be many long months...
...years as editor-owner of the Emporia (Kans.) Gazette he had been more widely quoted, perhaps, than any other U.S. editor. Balloon-pricker, dauber of stuffed shirts, kindly philosopher, booster of the good, of Kansas, of Kansans, and of the Republican Party, Will White had been a solid force in the U.S. on the side of good will...
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