Word: wound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...squabbles. But few ever reached the pitch of last week's affair when James Roosevelt, 61, was stabbed in the back by his wife Gladys, 52, at their home in Geneva, Switzerland. F.D.R.'s eldest son was rushed to a nearby hospital for emergency surgery, but the wound was apparently not serious...
...trouble with tetanus vaccination programs is that while some people never get the highly desirable shots, others may get too many. Anyone who suffers a dirty wound more than a year after his last tetanus shot is almost certain to receive yet another booster. This is not necessary, judging from detailed laboratory work by Peebles and others. Men and women, they maintain, retain their immunity against tetanus for twelve or more years after those first four shots in childhood, and certainly should not need a booster more often than every ten years. More frequent revaccinations are not only unnecessary...
...Mini-Multiple. Born into a comfortable bourgeois family in Malaga, Berrocal studied architecture and mathematics before setting off for Rome and art studies in 1952. After a spell in Paris, he wound up in Verona because of the excellent foundry that was there. He is presently obsessed with the idea of spreading his art around the world. "A Berrocal in every house and a Berrocal in every pocket," is his slogan. To implement it, he conceived of something he calls the "mini-multiple" -reproductions that are identical with his expensive cast bronzes except for size and material...
...sniper's bullet fractures a Marine's leg, yet he continues carrying a wounded squad mate on a stretcher for a mile to the evacuation area. Hot shrapnel severs the leg muscles of another Marine so badly that doctors later say that he should have been unable to walk, yet he runs more than 200 yards to a medical-aid station. A man with a smashed knee crawls 40 yards to a mortar position, props himself on his elbows, and helps load shells for five hours before reporting his wound...
...deduce that the child was only a surrogate for an elaborate complex of wrath which involved not only her husband but her father. The mother was told only a part of this. And in three weeks, the clinic-produced, not a cure, but a dressing for an ugly emotional wound. "We haven't guaranteed she won't beat her child again," says Dr. Philip Margolis, the clinic's director. "But we may have deterred...