Word: scarring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lymph systems call for the production of more infection-fighting white cells and antibodies. If the threat has been great enough, the inflammation suffuses the whole body, creating a generalized calor-fever. In its final stages, inflammation stimulates the production of new capillaries and connective-tissue cells, and scar formation...
...raise his hand so they can take his son away. In the end everyone is killed, the Americans win, and they tell you how the Americans have counter-insurgency schools in all the military units. In the Marine Corps they have a sniper school. Oh yes, the scar-faced leader escapes like a coward and then they finish by telling you: "Counter-insurgency will pop up again somewhere until all insurgency has been wiped out to the last man and only then will we be safe from the Communist menace...
...soon to be married. The Pap smear taken at a premarital examination discloses some suspicious cells. Since their source is not precisely pinpointed, standard practice would demand removal of sizable cone-shaped sections of tissue from the cervix and perhaps its entire lip, with the danger of forming scar tissue that could close off the uterus and leave the woman infertile...
...intended to start the book with an episode in which he contrasts L.B.J.'s love of hunting to J.F.K.'s "haunting" recollection of shooting a deer on L.B.J.'s ranch in 1960. The incident, which makes Johnson seem a heartless killer while Kennedy gets "an inner scar" from shooting a deer, is still in the book, but has considerably less anti-Lyndon impact than if it had launched the entire epic. It tends to cast Johnson as a man accustomed to brutality-a gruesome and singularly unjust characterization that makes L.B.J.'s love of hunting appear...
...hard cases-40% are Negro, many of the students come from broken homes, still others are dropouts from other schools. But Ben Becker is a hard case himself. A onetime amateur boxer who was Cassius Clay's manager at the 1960 Olympics, Becker has a broken nose, scar tissue around his eyes-and a brain-jolting jab in his fists. A boy who abuses a teacher will be challenged by his principal to a quiet meeting behind closed doors. The problem is usually solved after Becker flattens the youth with a left cross. For purposes of keeping the girls...