Word: staining
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Dyes & Light. The institute's members have made their own great contributions to pathology. In 1864 it was one of the old museum's first pathologists, Dr. Joseph Janvier Woodward, who developed the use of newly discovered aniline dyes to stain tissues so that different components became more distinguishable. That same year Dr. Woodward took the first microscope photographs, using the sun as his light source. Major Walter Reed was the pathology museum's curator when he went to Havana as head of the team that convicted mosquitoes of carrying yellow fever, making possible control...
What Griffin did was really quite simple. He persuaded a dermatologist in New Orleans to treat him with a medicine used to cure vitiligo: a skin disease which causes white blotches to appear on a Negro's face and body. Where the medicine worked imperfectly, Griffin applied black stain; then he shaved his hair, and within a few days was transformed into a Negro...
Liston screws his heavy features into a frightening grimace. He swings a vicious right to Polino's jaw. The muscular assistant trainer staggers, spits out a mouthful of teeth, backs off and grabs a golf club to defend himself. Liston draws a gun. Bang! Bang! A red stain spreads slowly where Polino clutches his chest. Sportswriters flee in panic; one newsman from Baltimore cowers behind the fireplace. The TV producer faints dead away...
...Soldiers, procured me Anxiety and Obloquy enough. It was, however, one of the most galant, generous, manly and disinterested Actions of my whole Life, and one of the best Pieces of Service I eyer rendered my Country. Judgment of Death against those Soldiers would have been as foul a Stain upon this Country as the Executions of the Quakers or Witches, anciently. As the Evidence was, the verdict of the Jury was exactly right...
...Tory Diefenbaker was at last ready to end his long indecision on whether to arm Canada's two Bomarc-B antiaircraft bases with nuclear warheads, it proved not to be. Canada prefers to leave its missiles unarmed, said Diefenbaker, and itself free to lobby for disarmament without the stain of nuclear arms on its own hands. In the event of war, the Prime Minister went on, claiming the best of two worlds, Canadian forces could immediately be equipped with nuclear weapons...