Word: vein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mortimer and Lait have also collaborated on earlier works in the same vein, including "New York Confidential," "Washington Confidential," and "Chicago Confidential...
...youngster who had been shot in the holdup had come out of surgery. "The kid was lucky," the surgeon said. "An inch or two either way, and the bullet would have severed the aorta or portal vein or the hepatic artery. As it is, he'll live...
...wound, and goes back to his home town to find that the war hasn't changed his stay-at-home brothers very much, or himself either. He decides that the real battlefield of life is the self. At 29, Author Phillips knows how to work a vein of quiet realism for sense rather than sensation. Search for a Hero is his third novel, and though it may not be as engrossing as The Golden Lie (TIME, April 30, 1950), it shows an unusual gift for entering the lives of ordinary people. It is clearly the work of a writer...
...questionnaire, prepared and distributed by the Yale Daily News, starts off bluntly: "As a coach, do you consider Hickman excellent, good, adequate, poor, unsatisfactory (underline one.)" And it continues in this direct vein...
...said disgustedly after about five minutes in which I had bled only a tenth of a pint. "I better try another vein if that's all right with you." I assured her it was all right. The nurse brought around a brand new jar, stabbed for the bigger vein and this time I bled. Despite her weariness, the nurse gamely kept conversation going while I opened and closed my hand around the round object, and the blood drained out. "Few rejects today," she said. "One, though, almost fainted on the bed before I took his blood. Decided I better...