Word: vein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feelings for their embattled brethren overseas. Jimmy Breslin, also a member in good-standing of the tough-guy school, made such an attempt in World Without End, Amen. Higgins implies that these Irishmen are not running guns just to make money, but he resists any exploration of that rich vein of sentiment and history...
...General Hospital. "One, that I do have a heart; second, that it is in need of repair." Kissinger's longtime friend and personal physician, W. Gerald Austen, chief of surgery at Massachusetts General, explained that the operation was to be a triple coronary bypass, in which a major vein from the patient's leg would be used to make detours around the clogged arteries leading to his heart. Kissinger handled the risks diplomatically: he quipped that he was negotiating for "a quadruple bypass-one more than Haig." (Secretary of State Alexander Haig had triple coronary bypass surgery...
...Governor Hugh Carey contended that the New Federalism is really "a new feudalism," which will pit states against each other and cities against their state capitals as all struggle anew for a fair share of dwindling federal funds or jockey to protect their own economic interests. In the same vein, Democratic Governor Jerry Brown of California warned that the 50 states might become "competing colonies." West Virginia's Democratic Governor Jay Rockefeller charged that Reagan was "dumping onto the states what he doesn't want to face up to himself...
...that "would be expected to result in irreversible biological death in the majority of instances." Three-quarters had been in cardiac arrest. A few had already been given up for dead. One soldier, for instance, was discovered to be alive only when a mortician saw blood flowing from a vein into which he was about to inject embalming fluid...
Sugilite has been found in Japan and India, but only in small deposits that were not of gem quality. In August 1980, workers in a manganese mine in South Africa first discovered a vein of purple stone after a cave-in. They smuggled the stone out in their lunch pails, and from there samples were brought to the U.S. Phoenix Jeweler Randy Polk saw them, and traveled to South Africa. Polk went from house to house in the dusty interior town of Hotazel, negotiating with the miners to buy the stones. He now owns nearly 100 lbs., or half...