Word: scars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That sentiment was echoed by Tajuddin Ahmed, who told me in an interview: The Nixon Administration has inflicted a great wound. Time heals wounds, of course, but there will be a scar. We are grateful to the American press, intellectual leaders and all those who raised their voices against injustice. Pakistan turned this country into a hell. We are very sorry that some administrations of friendly countries were giving support to killers of the Bengali nation. For the people of Bangladesh, any aid from Nixon would be disliked. It would be difficult, but we do not bear any lasting enmity...
...restored. Dr. Stanwood Schmidt of the University of California San Francisco Medical Center has a different approach. Removing no tissue and sealing the center of the severed vas by electric cauterization, he leaves the muscular wall of the tube intact. To reverse the procedure, Schmidt simply removes the scar tissue and rejoins the tube. Schmidt has attempted to undo vasectomies in 150 patients. Of these, 75% experienced resumption of sperm flow, while at least 25% succeeded in fathering children...
Dressed in a tan safari suit with a military cut, he sat at a table in the well of the crowded courtroom. There was a long, ugly scar on the side of his face -mute testimony to his occupation. As TV floodlights played on his shaved head, his eyes glanced over the galleries as if in search of a friendly face. He found none-only an Arabic sign with a verse from the Koran: "If you are to judge someone, be fair...
...inner circle has his personal magnetism. He strongly resembles his longtime mentor, Johnson. There are the same drawling intonation of speech, the same earthy turns of phrase. Yet his features are finer and his manner smoother than Johnson's; nobody can quite picture Connally showing off an operation scar. He can charm foes with a wry, knowing smile that flickers as brightly and briefly as summer lightning...
Each sacrifice that was made, each scar, each moment of defiance, no matter how brief or insignificant it seemed, mattered. That was what Dick Hyland tried to say in his writing. It mattered because people in Vietnam and China and Czechoslovakia and South Africa who were of the same frail flesh and blood as us, and wanted the same things we did, were fighting hard every day. They faced an array of power we could only try to imagine. They fought with a courage and a belief in themselves that was distinct from anything we had ever known. They were...