Word: spleening
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...Camino Real, a major highway. In Detroit, 15 out of some 250 sit-in demonstrators were arrested at the Federal Building. The drawdown of U.S. forces has made the war a less personal issue to many collegians, and many 18-to 21-year-olds may be saving their spleen for the November presidential election, the first in which they may vote; if the war continues to be in the news, their supposed apathy may prove to have been overestimated...
...insulated container, the thymus was implanted during a three-hour procedure. That proved relatively easy. Many other transplants must be hooked up to the circulatory system in order to function properly; the thymus, requiring no connection, is merely placed in the abdominal cavity. Maggie's liver and spleen, which had become enlarged during her illnesses, have decreased in size. She is now at home, and her immunological system appears to be working normally...
...informal Richter scale of movie terror, Play Misty for Me registers a few gasps, some frissons and at least one spleen-shaking shudder. A good little scare show, in other words, despite various gaps in logic and probability...
...iconoclastic Don Rickles, who in the pilot for his next TV incarnation is cast as an advertising executive presumably with executioner power over TV shows. Given the quality of the new-season series to date, Rickles will not want for real-life material on which to exercise his spleen...
...series of experiments, Dr. John Vane found that aspirin-like drugs impeded the synthesis of a prostaglandin known to cause fever in cats. In another, Dr. Vane and his colleagues Sergio Ferreira and Salvador Moncada found that aspirin blocked the release of prostaglandins in a dog's spleen that had been removed and kept functioning artificially. In a third, Drs. John Brian Smith and Anthony Willis showed that aspirin prevented production of prostaglandins in human blood platelets...