Word: shunt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baby was having so many seizures by now that she took him back to the hospital. The doctors operated on him, inserting a shunt into his skull to relieve the pressure on his brain, then released him again. "It was evenin', like about four-thirty, five o'clock," Holly recalls, "and we was walkin' in the street. It was rainin', as a matter of fact. Not a warm night." Several ( days later Holly was still wandering around with her dying baby, being sent from hotel to hotel. "The place the shunt went in, his wound had gotten bad," she tells...
...dependent on Ramos, the other major hero of the anti-Marcos revolution. The general, who has helped frustrate five coup attempts against the President, may have called in his debts last week. When it became clear that Aquino wanted to keep her friend Arroyo in the Cabinet -- and to shunt Ramos into a less strategic post, or perhaps even an ambassadorship -- the general balked. Amid a sudden rumor that loyal generals would stage a coup if Arroyo was retained, Aquino relented. "If Cory had her choice, as she used to," said a Western analyst in Manila, "she would have kept...
...with how he interacts with women." The chief of staff became notorious in the past two years for his remarks disparaging women's interests and intelligence. In the White House he tended to dismiss the First Lady's advice or, worse, to shunt off her calls to his assistants. "I have never seen a wife who gets into her husband's affairs so much," he told an acquaintance. "It's unfortunate that she doesn't realize how damaging that...
...unquestionably triumphed, but the blessings are bestowed unevenly. The new regime finds itself increasingly embarrassed by Sinclair ("General Giant") Zwedu, the military hero of the war for freedom. The blunt soldier does not mix easily in the brave new world of international alliances and monetary congresses. His former colleagues shunt Zwedu toward oblivion, using the lure of well-heeled debauchery. In A City of the Dead, a City of the Living, a black couple in Soweto take in a visitor who may have been involved in the terrorist bombing of a police station. He and the husband talk politics...
Finally, after two hours of maneuvering, four Swedish tugboats managed to shunt the sub into a nearby haven...