Word: abdomen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...audience of Republican governors in New Hampshire, House Speaker Newt Gingrich blamed the welfare, criminal justice and educational systems for a gruesome murderous rampage in which a pregnant woman and two of her children were killed. After the woman was shot to death, her assailants cut open her abdomen with a pair of scissors and pulled out her 8 1/2 month fetus, which survived. "Gingrich appears to have something approaching political Tourette's syndrome," says Washington correspondent John Dickerson. "The list of things he's said and had to apologize for is proving that point. People expected that once...
...year-old law student who had been involved in illegal West Bank settlements opened fire, hitting Rabin in the spine, chest and back. "They took Rabin out on a stretcher," said one eye-witness. "He was lying on his side with a bloodstain on his chest and abdomen. His eyes were closed." Rabin, 73, died of the wounds during emergency treatment at Ichilov Hospital nearby. The Israeli Cabinet immediately gathered in emergency session. A Cabinet spokesman said that Foreign Minister Shimon Peres will take over as acting Prime Minister...
When Dana Ullman's younger sister developed a nagging pain in her abdomen, their father, a pediatrician, couldn't find the cause or a cure. Neither could the five specialists who were called in on her case. Then Dana, a practitioner and leading proselytizer of homeopathy, stepped in. He prescribed a dose of calcium carbonate; two weeks later, his sister's pain had disappeared. Now whenever illness strikes, the Ullman family turns first to Dana's type of medicine...
Frug, the wife of Professor of Law Gerald E. Frug, was stabbed several times in the leg and abdomen. She died on the sidewalk and was pronounced dead shortly after 9:15 p.m. that same evening...
...shirt off, he dangles form ropes exposing his taut, sinewy body. The scene is choreographed as gracefully as a ballet. Later in the play, he delivers a speech upside down, supported by his ankles, with his shirt falling on his face and exposing his chest. The dimples of his abdomen flex each time he speaks, rendering his stomach an amorphous face...