Word: vein
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...Loving Bob" Foley, besides trying to help out other boys in the chow hall is doing his best for himself in and around Baker Library. Also Bernie Bienvenu, the source of so many romantic rumors about other people, is now implicated himself via the grapevine in a deeply platonic vein with a young local girl named Terry; watch for further progress in the near future...
This time the doctors removed her baby by Caesarean section three weeks before its time, set to work giving it a complete new blood supply. With infinite delicacy they inserted a transfusion needle in the baby's tiny vein, while at another spot they drained off the child's own toxic blood. Three weeks later they handed the mother a healthy, rosy baby, purring like a well-lubricated Cadillac...
...postwar period their plans are set. They fell in love with Alaska, bought a homesite in Anchorage and a farm at Homer on the Kenai peninsula. Wild game, including black and grizzly bears, abounds at the farm. A vein of coal lies offshore, and the tide washes up more than enough lumps for heating. The Buckners plan to return there to live. Said the General: "I expect it will take me a solid year to catch up with my hunting and fishing. And I'll be so far away from things I won't be able to exercise...
Their method is simple, requiring only a piece of vein and a few bits of bloodvessel-sized vitallium tubing. (Vitallium is the non-irritating surgical alloy.) Given an artery with a section missing or damaged, the doctors snip each end neatly, then cut a section of one of the patient's own veins for a patch. (Loss of a vein is not dangerous, as other veins readily take over its work...
...piece of vitallium tubing shorter than the vein section is slipped over it and the vein ends turned back over the tube like cuffs. One artery end is then slipped over each end of the cuffed tube. Result: the insides of vein and artery heal together in a permanent natural weld. The vitallium can be left in place forever...