Word: pricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prick me, do I not bleed?" asked Shakespearean Richard Burton, 38, paraphrasing Shylock. Burton does, frighteningly, for as he explained in Manhattan last week, he has suffered all his life from a mild form of "bleeder's disease," or hemophilia. Recently recruited by the National Hemophilia Foundation, he announced the formation of a Richard Burton Hemophilia Fund, with Wife Liz as chairman, to aid research on the disease...
Lightning arced hotly around the stage in the lithe body of a girl in a metallic leotard (Matt Turney), rousing loiterers into dances that were alternately elegant, calculating or frenzied. Sometimes serious, Lightning was also full of the ironic wit with which Graham occasionally likes to prick the dance world's pretensions. The girl's coolest, most contained movements, for instance, often prompted her partners to shatter the mood with explosive, calisthenic displays...
...researchers were trying to find out why the drug produces an undesirable side effect-lowered blood sugar. The toadfish is an ideal subject for such an experiment because it has simple kidney and insulin-producing mechanisms that permit researchers to observe sugar changes. To obtain blood samples, the researchers prick each toadfish's tail. To collect urine, they attach balloons to the excretory ducts of the toadfish, let them swim around for several days in a briny tank, take the urine-filled balloons to the laboratories for study...
...within the canons of comedy and melodrama he could give the illusory appearance of being a creature of flesh and blood. The purveyors of the immaculate Jew, on the other hand, produced not so much a character as a formula. Riah and his type will not bleed if you prick them...