Word: vein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Barring any last-minute delays, Hays will be placed on a stretcher on Sept. 14 with his arms, legs and chest strapped. A needle will be inserted into a vein and a harmless salt solution will begin to pass through a tube and into Hays' body. Next, Hays will be carried to an execution room where some 30 people, including the press and up to seven people named by Hays, will witness his final moments. At 12:30 a.m. the executioner-an unidentified volunteer behind a screen-will open a valve that gradually replaces the salt solution with...
Jones' cast are rawboned archetypes. Debts to Hemingway and Jack London are duly paid. But a peculiar vein of mysticism transforms the tale. Exerting his territorial imperative, for instance, Slade is aided by a transubstantial raven, a platoon of aged Japanese marines (survivors of a 1940s infiltration of the Aleutian Islands), and the icebound corpses of prehistoric mammoths. But the grand gesture proves as impermanent...
...double biceps, that classic pose that every six-year-old hits during the stage where he's doing push-ups and fooling with dumbbells. And there's the "Most Muscular pose. Clasp your hands a little below your naval, force your chest and neck out, strain until every vein looks like a pencil and your face looks like it's not going to last very...much...longer, and that's the most muscular...
...personality. I went through a year when I did more coke than most people will ever do in a lifetime. I went from weighing 188 Ibs. to 150 Ibs. The first time I did it, I was into heroin, so I cooked it up and shot it into a vein. A few minutes later my whole body was going cold. It felt like I was going to faint or was getting seasick. The whole world was going gray, everybody in the room getting real distant. I was going limp and lifeless, and the only thing I could think about...
...that would probably mollify Rep. Gore, Vice-Chancellor Park and others, Lamont-Havers concedes, adding that Mass General has been hard at work on regulations for industrial affiliations since 1975. In his annual report, Bok said he would urge the entire faculty to hasten its efforts along a similar vein...