Word: reclaim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overcome such drawbacks, doctors at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago have developed a technique that promises to get safe blood quickly to a patient. It is a form of autologous transfusion but with an important difference. Most hospitals try to reclaim part of the blood lost by a patient during surgery. When faced with gaping wounds that ooze large quantities of blood into body cavities -- as in open-heart or orthopedic surgery -- surgeons can reclaim half of it with suction devices, cleanse it in purifying machines and send it back into the patient. The rest is lost because it either...
...Government formed in the fuselage of Air Force One, yet another ritual that mocked dignity. But it was, perhaps, that magnificent plane that began to reclaim the majesty of the presidency. With the body of Kennedy onboard, the new President invested formally, Colonel James Swindal taxied his plane out on the emptied runway of Love Field. The ship paused in lonely splendor, then lifted off into a blue sky, clean and beautiful even in that mournful flight...
...reader discovers that he does not hold a book, but an attempt to reclaim a book that has been lost...
...teens, '20s and '30s that don't exist in performable form," laments McGlinn. "If a show closed out of town, the scores could be thrown out on the last night. A lot of pre-Oklahoma! Rodgers and Hart, Porter and Kern shows are gone forever. We're trying to reclaim from oblivion all the work of America's greatest writers and composers...
Heinsohn, as the blurbs on his book proclaim, is straight forward, unafraid of criticizing even people dear to him--the Celtics, for instance. Heinsohn believes the Celtics will face an uphill fight this season to reclaim their success of past years...