Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some extent, the statement was also a year's-end audit of U.S. books in China. Admittedly on the debit side was the failure of General Marshall's mission to break the Kuomintang-Communist deadlock. But on the credit side was the repatriation of nearly 3,000,000 Japanese troops, and a slash in U.S. troop strength from 113,000 to less than...
...Rogersville, Tenn., for better teachers; in Lock Haven, Pa., against corporal punishment; in Chicago, because the boys wanted a football team and the girls wanted to wear slacks; in New York City, against Christmas homework; in Sapulpa, Okla., for a longer vacation. Sapulpa fathers formed a united front to break the strike, applied "woodshed tactics...
Artery Patch. A break in the aorta, the big artery leading away from the heart, is hard to repair; surgeons have tried patching with a length of metal tube, transplanted blood vessels, etc.-without great success. Dr. Charles A. Hufnagel of Harvard Medical School described a new patch that he thinks may fill the bill (it worked well on dogs). His invention: a tube of lucite, the glasslike plastic. Attached to separated ends of the aorta, a lucite patch lets the blood flow freely without clotting, becomes firmly attached to the artery, can be left in the body permanently...
...girl reaches puberty. She cowers in a hut with a blanket over her head while long lines of older women parade around her, striking the ground with sticks, rattling bunches of deer hooves. Medicine men beat drums. Young men, masked like evil spirits, howl on the outskirts, try to break through the picket line. The coming-out party lasts a month. Then the pickets disperse; the girl throws off the blanket, takes a bath, is thenceforth considered grown up. Among the Bororos of Brazil, she moves to the bachelors' club...
...factor (so named because it was first discovered in rhesus monkeys) is a mysterious, hereditary component of red blood cells. Rh positive and Rh negative cells are sometimes incompatible; if Rh cells have been sensitized to the Rh factor, mixing them results in antibodies which either break down the Rh positive cells (causing anemia and jaundice) or produce clots (blocking circulation...