Word: vein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lawrence Welk isn't very well known, but the good word is that his music is in the same vein as Sanders's. He's playing at the usually staid Boston Garden Thursday night, and make sure you have your head screwed on tight before you go or Welk will blow it away...
...same ailment that President Nixon suffered from during his Middle East trip. An inflammation of a vein, it can be fatal if a blood clot breaks loose and travels to the lungs or brain...
...from phlebitis, had urged Nixon to go into a hospital in Salzburg, Austria, during the early stages of his first trip. The President refused, saying that he had an "obligation" to proceed to the Middle East. Later, said Tkach, the clot became "fixed" - attached to the wall of the vein - and the danger to the President's life was now "pretty much gone...
...start of his eight-day leap-frog tour from Washington to Brussels to Moscow, Nixon was still suffering from phlebitis, an inflammation of a vein that he had first noticed in his left leg when he began his Middle East tour two weeks earlier. Though the pain had disappeared-Press Secretary Ron Ziegler said that Nixon likened it to that of a deep bruise-the President nonetheless had to elevate the leg on his plane and in the privacy of his quarters on the ground. While phlebitis can be dangerous, even fatal if the clot moves to the lungs...
...this vein, Kiely's program appears to be a preventive against the pre-professional fever that infects freshmen who find no other order or purpose in their first year course other than getting on the track for medical or law school...