Blut

Blood and iron, in German Blut und Eisen, meant “military force as distinguished from diplomacy” and was associated in the 1870s with Prince Bismarck, “the iron chancellor.”

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

Blood and iron, in German Blut und Eisen, meant “military force as distinguished from diplomacy” and was associated in the 1870s with Prince Bismarck, “the iron chancellor.”

The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

"Blut," Guido repeated with even less joyful anticipation.

Myth-Ing Persons Asprin, Robert 1984

In the following video clip, soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sings the beloved waltz from Strauss's Wiener Blut which received its world premiere on October 26, 1899, some five months after the composer's death.

George Heymont: The Fabulous Invalid Clings to Life George Heymont 2011

In the following video clip, soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sings the beloved waltz from Strauss's Wiener Blut which received its world premiere on October 26, 1899, some five months after the composer's death.

George Heymont: The Fabulous Invalid Clings to Life George Heymont 2011

Doesn't that expression have a vague, sour whiff of Blut und Boden about it?

Archive 2009-09-01 2009

Renaming the disease—from the florid “suppuration of blood” to the flat weisses Blut—hardly seems like an act of scientific genius, but it had a profound impact on the understanding of leukemia.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

Unable to find a unifying explanation for it, and seeking a name for this condition, Virchow ultimately settled for weisses Blut—white blood—no more than a literal description of the millions of white cells he had seen under his microscope.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

Unable to find a unifying explanation for it, and seeking a name for this condition, Virchow ultimately settled for weisses Blut—white blood—no more than a literal description of the millions of white cells he had seen under his microscope.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

Yet to arrive at this new era, cancer biologists would again need to circle back to old observations—to the peculiar illness that John Bennett had called a “suppuration of blood,” that Virchow had reclassified as weisses Blut in 1847, and that later researchers had again reclassified as chronic myeloid leukemia or CML.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010