Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...form of surgery, the least leak in his circulatory system may require massive plasma transfusions as doctors try to supply a lifesaving amount of a missing clot-promoting protein. But all too often, new blood or plasma cannot be pumped into a "bleeder" in sufficient quantity without risk of overloading his circulatory system. Some concentrates of the vital protein are available, but they are expensive. Now Stanford Physiologist Judith Graham Pool has developed a simple, cheap and effective method of concentrating the protein in so potent a form that small amounts can stop hemorrhages...
...still preferred Trinidad-but said it "softly." At one point Dean Rusk suggested that the operation be launched from Guantanamo, thereby providing the invaders with an opportunity for retreat; but the Joint Chiefs rejected that idea, and Rusk later complained to Schlesinger that "the Pentagon people" were willing to risk "the President's head" but not the U.S. base...
Such appeals have a familiar ring to African nationalists. It is unlikely, however, that they will bring the Sudanese rebels much support. Although most black African leaders distrust the Arabs, few seem willing to risk splitting the continent into two hostile camps. A successful secession movement would set a dangerous precedent for such ethnic friction points as Nigeria and Chad, both of which are already hard put to keep peace between their Arab and Negro populations...
After a six-year study of community health patterns in a small Michigan city, a team of University of Michigan scientists found that blood sugar levels provide a further indication of heart disease risk along with blood fats and high blood pressure, two factors now most commonly linked with heart disease. Though it is known that an elevated sugar level often indicates diabetes, and diabetes in turn often leads to atherosclerosis, the Michigan study, reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine, marks the first large-scale study that links blood sugar to heart-and-artery disease...
Upon hearing that a South African paper had published a sensational exposé of conditions in the country's prisons, the London Sunday Times sent a cable to its Johannesburg stringer asking for details. "I dare not risk prosecution and gaoling by cabling this story," answered Stringer Benjamin Pogrund. He had reason for his fears. He had written the story in the first place for the nation's most outspoken newspaper, the Rand Daily Mail. And Prime Minister Verwoerd's police were already making trouble...