Word: wounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the President continued his remarkable recovery, another victim of the assassination attempt suffered a setback. White House Press Secretary James Brady, who had been recuperating smoothly from a bullet wound in the head, suddenly turned groggy last week; doctors discovered that a buildup of air was pressuring his damaged brain. Dr. Arthur Kobrine first drained the air and then, in an operation that lasted 5½ hours, found the source of the leak-a hole in the membrane covering the brain near the sinuses-and patched it with muscle tissue from Brady's temple. By week...
...made skin is still experimental, and more clinical testing will be needed before it is available for widespread use. Says Yannas: "We want to develop a membrane that will cover the wound and let it change over to natural skin without any more treatment or procedures. We don't want to use the patient's own skin...
Shortly before noon the runners lined up for the start, those marked "official" staggered by times, and those marked "unofficial"--at the back of the pack--staggered by the prospect of running 26.2 miles. As the gun sounded, we struggled frantically to remove our uncooperative sweats and wound up as the last runners to cross the starting line--not an auspicious beginning...
They descended upon Princeton, N.J., hoping to tame the local beasts. But the Harvard golf team encountered fierce competition from both the Tigers and rival Dartmouth, and wound up in third place in last weekend's Ivy League Championships...
...frock coat and a silvered, tasseled sash, a spangled umbrella furled under his arm, a top hat held over his heart; and, alongside him, a shorter man, similarly gray and with similar bearing and similar attire. Thanks to confusion resulting from the mix of bands, the procession has wound up with two grand marshals. "Albert would have laughed at that," Teddy Johnson says later.) Yet the two move as one: in perfect time with the cadence, each meticulously executes a gravely swaying strut. They are undistracted by whimsical second-liners who invade the street to emulate their not quite imitable...