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...beating two other men in a primary, which virtually assures him the governorship in November. He Won the way he always has−with words. Clement loves words−particularly the first person singular. In one 30-minute campaign speech he mentioned himself exactly 213 times. In the same vein, he recalled to a Centerville audience that "I came down here as a boy and cut a right of way 20 feet wide and dug holes six and eight feet deep and set poles and strung wire. I'll guarantee you that within the last 24 hours half...
...poems by Alfred Giraud. The mood of the poetry is fantasy (one stanza reads: "As a pallid drop of blood Tints the lips of one in sickness,/ So inherently this music/Tempts destruction of the self"). There can be no doubt that the music is cast in the same vein as the poetry. It is modern composition at its harshest, its most discordant, its most trenchant...
...John Herrmann took the arm to the operating room. To guard against clots, he flushed out the whole artery-vein system with a special saline solution combined with antibiotics, an anticoagulant and a radiopaque dye. X rays promptly showed that the arterial tree was open all the way to the fingertips. Relieved, Dr. Herrmann picked up the arm, carried it carefully to the operating table on which Ev Knowles had just been wheeled in, all draped except for his torn and bloody shoulder...
...That the tieing off of an irregular (extra) vein, either in the kidney or the recipient, is not likely to embarrass the circulation of blood through the kidney as numerous intra-renal by-passes are present...
...down his reactions to things literary, political, social and philosophical at the drop of a stamp. He had great friendships and great enmities, usually with the same people, and wrote them all down at white heat. He was often wrongheaded, but even his most outrageous opinions generally nick a vein...