Word: scars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ornaments were the whip-lash's scar...
...Curve. The surgery lasted ten hours. Almost 3/2 hours were spent dissecting the adhesions of scar tissue left by an earlier operation in New York to correct an intestinal blockage. Only then was Suruga able to snip out an eight-inch section of jejunum (the upper part of the small intestine) and to fashion it into the shape of a U (see diagram). Next he trained his surgical microscope, working at 20-to 40-power magnification, on the minuscule bile ducts. He exposed them, and with incredibly fine needlework sewed one branch of the U over them like a funnel...
...identified as that of Dr. Ludwig Stumpfegger, Hitler's surgeon, who was scurrying down the street with Bormann when both men disappeared. As for the other skull, the teeth resemble those of the Nazi leader, and there is a deformation over the right eye, where Bormann had a scar. German officials promised to announce the results of their examinations in mid-January. Paramount Pictures, planning a movie on Bormann's alleged escape, said it would go ahead no matter whose skull those workers found...
...that it must continue the bombing, for which there is less and less justification and that does little for U.S. "credibility." Nixon also worries that a Communist takeover in Viet Nam-especially one followed by a "bloodbath" of reprisals there-would lead to an outbreak of recriminations that would scar U.S. domestic policies for years...
...suffered a setback in the 1970 congressional elections because of an unduly strident campaign. Not much more than a year ago it looked as if he might become the first incumbent President since Herbert Hoover to be turned out of office. But now, for the first time in his scar-studded career, he bestrides the American political arena like a colossus. By every sign, omen and pollster's tally sheet, Nixon and his running mate Spiro Agnew have it made. The President may be forgiven a touch of vertigo these days...