Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...combat troops, particularly those key men that commanders feel they can ill spare if the unit has to go back into the line, there are special camps within South Viet Nam itself, notably at Danang and Vung Tau. Here battle-worn troops are sent to recuperate on three-day passes that are technically R & R but really bonuses that do not jeopardize their basic five-day R & R leave...
Good News. Nor does he spare the troops. In Viet Nam last Christmas, Hope told them that "it's such a thrill to see the Huntley-Brinkley show performed live. But you better get on the ball. If you don't get better ratings, this whole war may be canceled." Hope also had "good news" for the boys: "The country is behind...
...Spare Kidneys. This explained why the first few kidney transplants, begun at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in the early 1950s, had failed. It also explained the success of Dr. Joseph E. Murray's first transplant of a kidney between identical twins, done at the Brigham in 1954. Since only one patient in 300 or more has an identical twin available-let alone willing-to donate a kidney, researchers in a dozen branches of medical science have been trying ever since to devise a way of switching off the immune or rejection mechanism long enough...
Every normal person has two kidneys, and since he can live on one, that means he has one to spare. The corpses of healthy people killed in accidents provide two. So although the demand still far exceeds the supply, the kidney transplanter's problem is minor compared with that of the surgeon who would transplant a liver. Each man has only one, and cannot live without it. The world's pioneer in transplanting livers, Dr. Thomas Starzl of the University of Colorado, has obtained 15 so far, with encouraging results in four recent operations on little girls (TIME...
Meanwhile, the airlines have watched the Concorde price tag rise from the original estimate of $7,000,000 to $21 million per plane, including spare parts. Option signers have deposited about $300,000 for future delivery...