Word: slough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Infections after burns delay healing, make skin grafts slough off faster, and may turn a superficial burn into a deep one. Researchers at Glasgow's Royal Hospital for Sick Children, searching for a locally applied antiseptic that would kill germs without destroying tissue, report best results with a weak solution of chlorhexidine, now use it in preference to all other methods of treating burns and scalds...
...effort to plant the seedbed of a viable economy, and that they cannot insist upon sewing too fine a seam in doing it. To put it another way and quite simply, the United Kingdom has its back to the wall in its Spartan efforts to climb out of the slough of despond, and there is no use crying over spilt milk; whilst, if they are but allowed in their own way to put the best face on it they can, the country must eventually be able to stand again on its own bottom, though we cannot expect to let them...
Behind the President's own stand was a subtle change in his philosophy. Four years ago Eisenhower took office determined to decentralize Government functions. Now he believes that decentralization has gone about as far as it can. Rather than slough off remaining responsibilities, he told a Washington conference of the Advertising Council, the Administration should provide the "massive single leadership that is necessary and then keep the Federal Government out of operations so far as it is possible...
...rare previous operations, lungs had been removed in stages, or had been forced to slough off gradually by having their blood supply...
City Sticker. In Slough, England, after police caught him .carrying a gin. bayonet, Nicholas Smith told a magistrate's court: "I was going to London, and you know what life's like there...