Word: liverence
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...Those who use marijuana to excess, it is known, run the risk of lessened intellectual activity. Pot partisans point out that those who use alcohol to excess not only lessen intellectual activity but cause damage to the brain, liver and heart as well. The A.M.A.-N.R.C. report contents itself with pointing out that social productivity is reduced in those areas of Asia, Africa and South America where heavy use of marijuana is common...
...Newman had visited Barrington and received a cool reception. The people couldn't be talked out of Kennedy. Their reasons for voting for him had hardened. Some left he would clean up the garbage. One woman preferred McCarthy, but said she would vote for Bobby because he "quivers my liver." That's charisma...
...after his announcement, Rockefeller went to Philadelphia to de liver the second of his major position speeches. The first, two weeks earlier, had been on the urban crisis and caused few ripples. Now he spoke about Viet Nam, a subject on which he had been silent for two years. He proposed no radical departures, attempted instead to camp on unexceptionable middle ground. The U.S., he maintained, must seek a settlement "whose aims and guarantees safeguard the freedom and security of all Southeast Asia." The "Americanization of the effort, military and civilian, should be reversed." At the same time, he argued...
...heart was doing a fine job of pumping more blood, but the blood was not taking up enough oxygen. Explained Shumway: "This change in circulation has confused his lungs to some extent. The problem is whether there can be a satisfactory adjustment to the new heart. Liver and kidney functions are fine-in other words, all systems are 'go' except for the lungs...
...organ bank from which surgeons could draw a kidney, a liver or a heart for transplantation when needed is still far off in the future, but an information bank from which surgeons may find out about organs as they become available is in the process of being established. Sponsor of the bank-or, more precisely, clearinghouse-is the Medic Alert Foundation. Started on a shoestring twelve years ago in Turlock, Calif., by Dr. Marion Collins, the organization has by now issued something like 200,000 identification bracelets and necklace tags to victims of diabetes, hemophilia, penicillin allergy and other conditions...