Word: spleens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their condition. Those with more serious cases of erythroblastosis fetalis suffer from the presence in the blood of too many erythroblasts, or immature red blood cells. Unable to do mature cells' work of carrying oxygen to the body's cells, the overworked blood-producing tissues−liver, spleen and other organs−swell and contribute to congestive heart failure, eventually causing death. The most seriously afflicted infants, however, are usually stillborn...
...kinds of concomitant difficulties which were encountered are more crucial matters of concern), it seems that The Crimson caught Dean Ford in a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't situation of its own making which allowed The Crimson all the self-satisfying venting of spleen it could hope for. Yet although personal vendetta may fire some imaginations and make some smoke, this can only get into the eye of critical analysis and distort and even obscure the real uses...
...precisely because of that attempt, the Navy has found itself buffeted by a series of racial outbreaks. In early October, the decks of the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, which was en route to Viet Nam, became the stage for a wild slugfest in which unhappy blacks vented their spleen on white seamen. Three of the 46 who were injured (40 white, six black) had to be evacuated by helicopter. A few days later a similar scene was played out on the oiler Hassayampa in Subic Bay in the Philippines; four whites were injured and eleven blacks were...
...young patients are usually sedated before their transfusions. Older children who are more accustomed to the transfusions relax in overstuffed chairs in a clublike room while receiving blood. Careful monitoring is carried on to guard against the infections to which thalassemia victims are prone. Many youngsters also have their spleen removed when that organ becomes uncomfortably enlarged. Although the reasons are not fully understood, infections may multiply when the spleen is taken...
...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...