Word: sneak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...present golden age of transplants occurred only after researchers began tackling one of medicine's greatest puzzles: How do you sneak a foreign organ past the body's immune system, which is dedicated to the proposition that all alien tissue is dangerous and should be destroyed? On the one hand, doctors try to disable the body's defenses just enough so that they will not reject the transplant. Here the trick is not to go overboard and completely cripple the immune system, leaving the body open to attack by deadly viruses and bacteria. On the other hand, they...
...willing to use it. Audit his enemies, he orders. "We have to do it artfully so that we don't create an issue by abusing the IRS politically," says Nixon, warming to the subject. "And there are ways to do it. Goddam it, sneak in in the middle of the night...
Sure, Harvard needs a president, Sure the presidency of Harvard is an important job. But as far as we can tell, national security is not at stake. There's no reason for the search committee to sneak around like Manhattan Project scientists...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
When Schwarzkopf came home from the war zone last week, a crowd gathered before dawn to foil his attempt to sneak quietly back into the country at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. The band played a victory march and the national anthem, and the fans wearing STORMIN' NORMAN FOR PRESIDENT T shirts waved flags and yellow balloons as sea gulls wheeled overhead. "I can't describe to you the emotion that's in all our hearts," he said, with his first words on American soil in 239 days. "It's a great day to be a soldier...