Word: sewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three times in the second half U.C.L.A. fought back to tie-at 54-54, 65-65 and 69-69. Hayes broke that last tie with two free throws; then, with 12 sec. left to play, he dropped into the backcourt, dribbled the clock away to sew it up. Said Alcindor: "We lost to a better team." And right now, anyway, a better...
...There are two problems," he said, "the surgical problem of whether you can take a heart out and sew it back in and the problem of the immune reaction: will the body tolerate the thing?" He said sufficient work had been done on the first aspect, but added, "I realize there comes a point when you have to try it out on humans. They don't react the same way a dog or a cat does. I personally would have liked to have seen more work done on the immune reaction in dogs first...
...ability to overcome natural handicaps. A practical sort was Blanche d'Antigny. An inordinately heavy sleeper, she found early in her career that a chance admirer at times stole off without paying. She soon came up with a way to outwit such a lover: she would sew his nightshirt to her own nightgown before going off into slumberland...
...brought about by a wrathful God who visited the sins of the fathers on the sons. In later life, she developed an odd, quasi-mystical faith of her own, and she has woven its demons and angels, its swans and minarets into her patchwork chronicles. She learned how to sew because, though an invalid, she was forced to serve as her father's assistant in his tailor shop during World...
...become too crippled to lie flat. When she tries to doze sitting up, she is constantly awakened by spasms of pain. Since doctors were of no avail to her in her youth, she sees no reason to turn to them now, refuses all medication. Still, she plans to sew more pictures of her interpretations of the Bible. "If we can't sew, we'll write it down," she adds. Bridget smiles and nods...