Word: viscera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bill Cunningham in which the Herald columnist takes a snipe at "those mighty minds" who "do the heavy thinking, while somebody else does the heavy fighting." To get the most out of a man, Professor Perry asserts, you must enlist his reason and his conscience as well as "his viscera and blistering hands." This means keeping the ultimate goal of a just peace in mind, as well as the immediate goal of victory...
...preservation of thought relating to our goals and objectives. Perhaps it is the fault of the times, but such an argument rings academically hollow. We have already agreed--our side is right--but it will remain as a side at all only if the "blistering hands and viscera" continue to work side by side with the ideas of the world to come...
...State agencies shot rabbits and ground squirrels, trapped mice, dug dead prairie dogs from their burrows. They took their catches in tight-woven bags to trucks outfitted as laboratories, parked in the shadows of mountains. They combed the rodents for fleas, then slit the carcasses to remove certain viscera and tissues. In many viscera the bacteriologists found what they feared would be there: the oval bacteria of Pasteurella pestis-the plague, the Black Death...
...impossible to tell, from a bullet's point of entrance, what track it may have taken. Often missiles passed clear through the abdomen without damaging any of the viscera. He added that the recovery rate for persons injured by revolver bullets was "flattering" to the operating surgeon...
Siamese Twins are identical twins who are not completely separated. "True Siamese twins consist of two nearly complete individuals united obliquely side by side in the hip region. Internally there are two complete sets of viscera, except that there is usually a common rectum." Their organs are symmetrical, one heart slanting to the right, the other to the left. But for some mysterious reason, they are often very unlike in facial features and personality...