Word: vein
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Only six days after he was released from Dallas' Parkland Hospital, Texas Governor John Connolly, 46, was back in, this time at Austin's St. David's Community Hospital, with an inflammation of the vein in his right leg through which he had been fed intravenously while recovering from wounds suffered during the President's assassination. Nevertheless, said he, doctors had given him the "real good news" that he would probably regain full use of his right wrist, shattered by the assassin's bullet...
...this time, then, there were two entirely different General Education programs operating simultaneously: one historical and rooted in Western traditions, the other contemporary and devoted to teaching in a liberal vein. A situation of incipient chaos was aggravated by two academic innovations that became law under the sponsorship of then-Dean McGeorge Bundy...
...plays often express nostalgia for hope and optimism in the spirit of a young girl (as in The Rehearsal), countering it with examples of repulsive families, bizarre marriages, grubbing politics and permeating corruption. Anouilh has carried this further by marrying two of his young heroines. In a more sour vein, he is forever locked in combat with critics. When they turn on him for his savage implosions of the constituted society, he merely picks up his pen and writes reviews of his own plays for Le Figaro, setting them all straight...
...Cancer-killing chemicals, if they are to do any good, must catch the cancer cells at their most vulnerable moment -when they are reproducing. Since this is a continuous process, continuous infusion of anti-cancer drugs into arteries or veins is usually necessary, requiring a stay of days or weeks in a hospital, at great economic and emotional cost to the patient. But now, Dr. Elton Watkins Jr., inventive director of surgical research at Boston's Lahey Clinic, has devised a compact, clockwork-driven pump that weighs only three-fourths of a pound and can be hung...
Died. Oscar Schwidetsky, 88, director of research for New Jersey's Becton, Dickinson & Co., manufacturers of medical supplies, who in 60 inventive years developed the elasticized Ace bandage, used the world over for sprains and varicose veins, the disposable morphine syringe carried in first aid kits, hypodermic needles that enable doctors to transfuse RH-factor babies through the umbilical vein: following a stroke; in Hackensack...