Word: vein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country's leading heart surgeons, strode into the operating room. Taking his place among his subordinates, he slit open the pericardium and examined the heart. Another surgeon, meanwhile, opened the patient's thigh and removed a foot-long section of the saphenous vein, one of four major veins that carry blood from the lower limbs to the heart. Effler began rapping out commands like a drill sergeant, initiating the procedure to shut down the patient's heart and turn its functions over to a heart-lung machine. Then, after stopping the still-beating heart with a split...
...this vein, Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs Philip H. Tresize said last October that, "as a practical matter, we cannot merely shrug off these other people's problems. Any real worsening of the oil situation in Europe and Japan, where we have mutual defense commitments on top of otherwise close and important relationships, would have to affect us... we recognize the mutuality of our interests in seeking to assure against an energy crisis that could harm...
...letters a week about the SST-and 80% are favorable. A particular target is the plane's most effective opponent, Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire. Backers have passed out bumper stickers intended to punish Proxmire on his home turf. One urges a boycott of Wisconsin cheese. In a lighter vein, another proclaims...
...very rough competition, Irvings managed to win five bouts on Friday and six more on Saturday. His record in the competitions this year showed N.Y.U.'s George Szunyogh, was stabbed in the neck in a freak fencing accident, but miraculously the blade missed his jugular vein and he was able to re-enter competition after receiving medical treatment...
...previously recorded on her country album; a waltz, "Finding Her": and a couple of imitation gospel numbers. "I'll Be Long Gone" and "Sweet Release," the latter probably the best cut on the record. With one or two exceptions, all the material is in a down and out, lovelorn vein, and will be especially appealing to those of you who dig self pity music...