Word: wound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their son and daughter grown, they moved four years ago into a modern apartment in Naples, near the Long Beach Yacht Club, where for a time they kept a 33-ft. sloop. Both found the club a good place to meet new friends, and some of them may have wound up berthing at Rivo Alto...
...nonexistent. Some 200 Arab demonstrators, including a few Black Muslims and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee members, mounted a picket line in front of the White House. But they were drowned out by some 20,000 demonstrators across the street who assembled to urge U.S. support for Israel and wound up celebrating Egypt's agreement to a ceasefire...
...later to work as a scout for the Australians against the Vichy French in Syria. During a fire fight, a bullet drove his binoculars into the left side of his face, destroying an eye, which he has kept covered ever since with a Hathaway-style black patch. Despite his wound, Dayan was eventually back in action, leading the Haganah commandos in 1948. Soon after, he took command of the Jerusalem front in Israel's first war with the Arabs. In 1953, he was made Chief of Staff, and he taught the Israeli army his uncompromising philosophy of battle?speed, emphasis...
Inflammation, all agreed, is one of nature's most basic defenses against injury. As such, Dr. Houck pointed out, it has to be enormously versatile because the injury may be a stabbing or abrasive wound, a burn, or invasion by infectious microbes. Even a sterile, uninfected wound summons inflammation to its aid. Since nature cannot construct individual defenses against an infinite variety of attacks from innumerable sources, said the Upjohn Co.'s Dr. E. Myles Glenn, it mobilizes everything at hand-the immune and clotting mechanisms, the blood-forming and lymph systems, the liver, and many others. Sometimes...
...visualize the overall inflammatory process," said Dr. Glenn, "as a wave or chain of cellular destruction." The first result of injury is to cut cells open, in the case of a stab wound or burn, or to weaken their membranes, in the case of many infections or poisoning by plants or animals. Either way, powerful chemicals that had been locked inside the cells, some in leakproof packages, spill...