Word: rejected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...balcony, badgered his wife to bring the family for a visit, and nicknamed the daily blood sampler "Old Dracula." Every other day he got a dose of cobalt-60 radiation that his doctors had or dered in hopes of controlling the expected-indeed, inevitable-attempt by his system to reject the "foreign" heart muscle in his chest. Even so, he was doing so famously in the early part of the week that he hoped to go home for Christmas-though doctors were reluctant to expose him to a crush of well-wishers...
...authorities say that they have more trouble with the resident British garrison than from visiting U.S. servicemen. Busting up bars seems to be something that went out with From Here to Eternity and the professional army. The G.I. these days is a civilian at heart-and savvy enough to reject the most importunate tout's offer of "a good place" with a grin and a worldly-wise shake of the head...
...National Security Council will probably reject this list and return to the President's original recommendations. The reasons are many. The most important factor is that the Committee based its recommendations on the assumption that the "oldest-first" system would be retained, which it will not. In testimony before the Senate Sub-Committee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty last March, Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz said that if 19-year-olds and some older men are drafted, there is no justification for educational and occupational deferments strictly from a consideration of civilian manpower supply...
...intermittent hemodialysis for the man with kidney failure. At a recent symposium, "Ethics in Medical Progress" (edited by Wolstenholme and O'Connor, 1966) considerable discussion was devoted to the question of whether it is suicide for a man who has the opportunity to avail himself of intermittent hemodialysis to reject it. The answer is surely no: It is still experimental; the subject has the right to withdraw. It is an extraordinary process for maintaining life; therefore not obligatory. (Plus...
...acted first at Cape Town, South Africa, had a more enduring success. Their patient, a 55-year-old man, was feeding himself and making small talk a week after his epochal surgery. At this time, as expected, there appeared the first signs of a tendency by his body to reject the transplant, but the doctors were confident that they could control this reaction...