Word: vein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That Dr. Sander's hypodermic needle didn't enter the vein in Mrs. Boroto's arm, because the vein had collapsed...
...entered the vein, it couldn't have reached her heart, because a blod clot near the shoulder had cut off all circulation...
...afternoon, Ford had been forced, into only three minor revisions in his testimony: (1) the blood clot did not dam the whole vein, but just 95 percent; (2) a patient lying on her back needs somewhat less air to cause death; and (3) although the clot meant a slow strangulation of the blood stream, it didn't disprove sudden death...
Prosecutor Phinney retold the story of the morning of Dec. 4 when Dr. Sander, bending over the wasted figure of Abbie Borroto, 59, told a nurse to bring him a sterile syringe. "He inserted the needle into the vein." Two or three minutes later -"Dr. Sander handed the needle back to the nurse and indicated that Mrs. Borroto was dead ..." A week later he dictated a notation to the record librarian: "Patient was given 10 cc. of air intravenously repeated four times. Expired within ten minutes after this was started...
...sang, took his music as well as his politics from the old Russia. His contingent of astrakhan-capped soldiers and gaily clad peasant followers carried him along on a swelling surge of music flavored by the Russian folk songs which Nationalist Mussorgsky loved so dearly. Mussorgsky mined the rich vein of Russian liturgical themes to back up the somber, icon-bearing Old Believers. Led by the young zealot Marfa (Rise Stevens) and the fervent patriarch Dossife (Jerome Hines), they sang the opera's most exciting music...