Word: abdomen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official photographer disappeared under his black cloth, Chinese cameramen began to snap. Suddenly out of a Chinese camera was whipped a pistol. Bang, bang, bang! Three bullets winged Premier Wang in the arm, neck and abdomen. As he crumpled, the pantherlike Generalissimo and China's whole quick-triggered élite were returning the assassin's fire...
...There was none of the empty or 'gone' feeling in the abdomen so common in elevators and in airplanes. The eyes, although unprotected from the high wind blast, were not irritated. . . . Breathing was even, regular and undisturbed...
...longtime preservation, removal of the vital organs is not necessary. Carbolic acid, however, dissolves gas in the body and the abdomen is then likely to collapse. This can be corrected by packing the abdominal cavity with cotton. Whether or not Lenin's viscera have been tampered with, his brain was removed, dissected into thousands of pieces, some of which were sent to Paris and Berlin. The Lenin brain cells, it appeared, were much larger than normal...
...week shock-haired Dr. John Augustus Toomey, children's specialist of Cleveland's Western Reserve University, impatiently declared that many of the cases must have been "gastro-neuritis with spinal fluid changes." This seems to be a newly recognized disease. Its symptoms-pain in head and upper abdomen, pain on movement, increase of certain cells in spinal fluid and blood-pass quickly. There are no known aftereffects...
...torn off. . . . The driver is death's favorite target. If the steering wheel holds together it ruptures his liver or spleen so he bleeds to death internally. Or. if the steering wheel breaks off. the matter is settled instantly by the steering column's plunging through his abdomen...