Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...microphone to announce: "We have just heard some good news on the radio. The Pope was not wounded in any vital organs, so the gravity seems to have waned." Only then did the crowd begin to disperse. By nightfall the lone remaining signs of its presence were gifts left by sorrowing pilgrims on the empty gilt chair from which John Paul would have addressed his flock: flowers, embroidery, a portrait of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa placed there by the Poles...
...doctors made a careful inspection to see if the twisting bullet had damaged any major blood vessels or organs. There was special concern that it might have hit the pancreas, which produces digestive enzymes that can dissolve tissue and, if they leak out, cause severe inflammation. Fortunately that vital organ escaped damage. Then the doctors ran their gloved hands along the entire 20-ft. length of the small intestine and the 5 ft. of large intestine. Typically this inch-by-inch examination is repeated two or three times to make certain no injury escapes notice. Any bleeding vessels are quickly...
...entire cavity was also washed with an antiseptic solution. As one doctor bluntly put it: "He had a bellyful of blood and feces." Throughout the procedure, the emergency team monitored vital signs and administered life-sustaining fluids. The Pope was given six pints of blood, about three-fifths of the body's normal circulating volume...
...already spent $2 billion on the MX. "The missile is vital," insists Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. "The question is, where do we put it?" Last week's proclamation will make it much harder for President Reagan to adopt a plan that would implant missiles in the Mormon heartland...
First, freedom of advertising, while often preverse in its execution, fulfills a vital function in any social democracy. In spite of the taint of money, advertising boils down to advocacy, and to deny its importance is "ludicrously and condescendingly" to defy liberal precets...