Word: vein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...change often comes about in affirmative action is through pressure, and Leonard will keep applying it, subtly, while the new task force works in a more public and demonstrative vein...
...lower than normal rate of output right after surgery." The Stanford group also routinely performs heart biopsies after surgery, looking for any clinical clue that the body's immune system may be rejecting the new heart. By slipping a biopsy catheter into the right ventricle via the jugular vein, doctors snip a piece of tissue, then compare it with a sample taken at the time of the original operation. If the biopsied tissue shows inflammation-a sign of rejection-the doctors temporarily increase the dosage of drugs that suppress the immune system after transplant surgery...
Jerry's Juggler Vein...
...novel The Custom of the Country, for example, he writes: Marvell also, as it were, embodies Edith's feminine side; Moffatt her masculine side, her immense energy, her decisiveness in action, the vigor of her ironic humor. Later, he again refers to what he terms Wharton's "masculine vein of satiric humor...
Physical Capital. Franco, whose chief doctor put the odds against his survival at 100 to 1, withstood the operation well and seemed to show signs of recovery. But by mid-week he sustained yet another series of setbacks. Phlebitis, a vein inflammation that almost killed him last year, developed in his left thigh. Then in a reaction to the various physical breakdowns in his system, Franco's kidneys failed, and toxins began building up in his blood...