Word: side
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Asanuma stumbled, his huge face contorted in agony. The youth whirled, took a fresh grip on the sword, and made a second thrust into the left side of Asanuma's chest. As horrified onlookers grabbed the assassin, Asanuma wobbled, then collapsed. He was rushed in a police car to a nearby hospital, but he was dead on arrival...
...between rocket-rattling sessions, Nikita Khrushchev sometimes shows a genuine fear of nuclear war and no longer argues that only the other side would get hurt. This more considered position seems to be the cold calculation of the Soviet military itself, to judge by an article published in Moscow's monthly International Life by Major General Nikolai Talensky of the Soviet General Staff. Writes Gen eral Talensky...
...officers chatting at the club, explaining that he had forgotten to get something in his room. Moments later, a shot rang out, and rushing up, the Jordanians were horrified to find Madani dead on the floor of his room, a bullet through his temple, a pistol at his side...
...also be afflicted by a kind of malign predestination. Some people are candidates for certain types of strokes as a result of what happened-or didn't happen-before they were born. The human fetus goes through a phase in which the internal carotid artery on each side feeds into three branch arteries and supplies most of the blood to its hemisphere of the brain...
Before birth these vessels are supposed to rearrange their connections so that the internal carotid supplies only two main branches. But, said Dr. Kirgis, about 14% of all brains studied at autopsy show the internal carotid still feeding three branch arteries on one side of the brain, and in a few cases this is true on both sides. A hemorrhage or, more common, a clot in the internal carotid of such people is apt to do far more damage than in people of normal arterial development, because there is a greater bottleneck for blood supply to essential areas...