Word: vein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shirt off his back to anyone who needed it-except a dirty, lying, stinking Communist." His conclusion: "I am not going to censure ... a Senator who is carrying the ball alone in a crusade to save Amer ica, if he may have said something in an ill-tempered vein...
...highway network, is its increasing failure to nourish the nation's economic life. Highways form a major circulatory system for U.S. industry and agriculture; when they become worn out and clogged with automotive arteriosclerosis, as they have in the past 15 years, the economy suffers. In the same vein, the Vice President pointed out. the country's roads would present "appalling inadequacies" in time of war or catastrophe...
When the Senate banking committee opened public hearings last week on chicanery in the Federal Housing Administration, it knew that it was tapping a rich vein of scandal and corruption. Estimates of excess windfall profits by dollar-grabbing contractors ranged from $100 million to $500 million. But no sooner did the hearings start than the committee ran into Fifth Amendment trouble...
...Vein of Charity...
...When Wayne Sturdevant, 32, was shot during an argument, the bullet lodged in a heart cavity. As a surgeon at Seattle's Swedish Hospital was removing it, the bullet slipped from his forceps and traveled down a large vein, against the blood flow, into the abdomen. So the surgeons sewed up the heart and chest, and within 20 minutes, opened the abdomen. This time they got the bullet. Sturdevant was making a good recovery last week from the shooting and both operations...