Word: lifeblood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Medical Center was struggling to get along with only a supervisory staff and 15 nurses; 425 nurses had been on strike for three weeks. "Money and benefits are the obvious complaints," says Denise Sullivan of the Massachusetts Nurses Association. "But more important is the fact that nurses are the lifeblood of any hospital. That is what is not being recognized...
Every summer the ancient Egyptians threw a beautiful virgin into the Nile to propitiate the river god. The Nile was Egypt's lifeblood: its waters renewed the parched land, and its sediment enriched the soil. But at times there was too much water, engulfing fields and villages, or too little, bringing famine and death...
...land leans gracefully toward the horizon to embrace Camelot, a fairy castle in Eden. The sword that will give Arthur his power rises suddenly, majestically, from a mercurial, brooding lake; a 300-ft.-high waterfall murmurs like silk in a soft wind; a soldier's lifeblood and the mud he died in become one. It is the morning of a new age-Christianity come to Britain -but Arthur and Mordred, his son born of an incestuous dream, meet their destiny in a crimson twilight of the gods...
...road to New Hampshire, a road well-traveled. I-93, the artery that runs through the Granite State, the presidential hopeful's lifeblood, the road that gave McGovern and McCarthy a chance. Live Free and travel...
Because energy is the lifeblood of a modern industrial society, the Soviets will undoubtedly make an all-out effort to tap their hard-to-get reserves. It remains to be seen, though, whether the country can accomplish the job in time to avert serious shortages. Concludes Jack Ray, a Tenneco petroleum specialist who is often in the Soviet Union: "With brute strength and will power they'll muddle through, just as they always...