Word: abdomen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paterson, N.J., asbestos plant. They documented their work in scientific papers and meetings. They also showed that even small quantities of asbestos fiber could be lethal. Selikoff studied a woman who died of mesothelioma, a cancer of the membrane that covers the lungs and lines the chest and abdomen. The woman's only contact with asbestos came when she washed the clothing of her husband, who worked in an asbestos plant...
...only a nightgown and housecoat, was dragged from her home, thrown down a flight of concrete stairs, handcuffed and belabored with obscenities by a police sergeant who claimed that she had urged her dog to attack him. During a family sidewalk fracas, a pregnant woman was pounded about the abdomen by a patrolman; although the woman has four other normal children, the infant born after that beating has a drooping eyelid, a bone protruding from his chest and a congenital heart defect...
...WATCH the two girls talking, looking for any stiffness in two newly-acquired friends. There is none. No change in posture, no half turning-away. Not even the subtle, residual tummy tuck, sucking in the breath and the abdomen together as we walk into a group of strange people...
Allen, who received knife wounds to the neck, face and abdomen, did not appear in court to give his account of the incident. After being discharged from the Cambridge Hospital, police discovered that warrants had been issued for his arrest for parole violations, Officer John Kosinski, who made the arrests, said yesterday...
...gray pants. After embracing his lawyer and receiving a kiss from his 62-year-old mother Athina, he was quick to announce: 'I do not repent. I am not ashamed of what I have done.' He pulled up his shirt and showed long scars running up his abdomen and chest that he said were the results of torture. He said that the interrogator had told him, 'I'm going to peel you,' as he cut into his flesh. To forestall lawsuits, Papadopoulos shrewdly proclaimed a blanket amnesty to all police and prison authorities for atrocities...