Word: veined
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...empty minutes, dredged up the results of preelection polls to make a far-out analogy between California's New Leftists who voted for Reagan and the German Leftists of the 1930s who voted for Hitler on the theory that he would soon collapse. In a more jocular vein, MacNeil explained that Democrat George Mahoney had lost in his bid to become Maryland's Governor because such traditional Maryland Democratic voters as David Brinkley had turned against their party...
Eliminating Middlemen. After flying next day to Wilmington, where he was mobbed by a crowd of 70,000, the President returned to Washington for his second formal press conference of the month. Making his announcements briskly, answering barbed questions with even-tempered directness, Johnson also bared a sardonic vein that recalled Harry Truman at his crustiest. Equating his own unpopularity with "prophets of doom" in the press, the President crowed: "I always get refreshed and I gain strength from going out to see the people without going through middlemen." Pursuing the issue, he told about "Uncle Ezra," who was once...
...with the Ford Foundation grants, Rutstein and Pincus will be able to broaden their investigation. Interest will center on whether or not there is a higher thrombophlebitis (inflammation of a vein associated with clotting) among women using oral contraceptives, than among those using other forms...
...into the artery, and glides idyllically down a clear stream filled with pink and white corpuscles that look like house-sized globules of tapioca. Then all at once it is swept into a violent whirlpool set up by a fistula that unnaturally connects the carotid artery with the jugular vein. When the hemonauts come out of their spin, they are in the jugular, drifting inexorably away from the brain and toward the heart...
Filter in the Vein. The possibilities of surgical staplers are not limited to sealing off tissue. One instrument is capable of joining two hollow organs such as the stomach and small intestine, simultaneously cutting the necessary opening between them and stapling them together, in a 5-minute procedure that usually requires 20 minutes or more of scalpel work and stitching. One experimenter with the staplers, Dr. Mark Ravitch of the University of Chicago School of Medicine, has worked out a new way to prevent emboli (traveling blood clots) from passing into the lungs through the vena cava, the body...