Word: abdomenal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said Erlanger was shot as he returned to his hotel room at about 8:30 a.m. As he bent down to pick up a newspaper, the assailant appeared, pointing a gun at Erlanger and demanding money. Erlanger began to rise, and the gun went off, wounding him in the abdomen...
...lawyers, Gene Reeves Jr., 47, in walking three blocks down Perry Street to the V and J Cafeteria. They were strolling back to the courthouse at 11:55 a.m. when there were two bursts of gunfire. Flynt toppled forward, face first, onto a concrete driveway, bullet holes in his abdomen. Reeves, struck in his arm and chest, staggered a few feet and collapsed on the sidewalk (he was later reported to be in satisfactory condition...
...know, I know" and offering her Valium. He won't take his turn at cooking dinner either. Is he one of the nasties in the giblet-peddling ring? When the villains strap Bujold to the operating table for an appendectomy she needs like a hole in the abdomen, will she survive to put makeup on her scar? Finding out the answers is like having an inoculation: you get a little sick, but after that the odds are that you will have nothing at all to do with hospitals...
There is a moment in Holy the Firm when Annie Dillard watches a candle flame consume a golden female moth. The moth's abdomen catches in the wet wax and her wings "ignited like tissue paper, enlarging the circle of light in the clearing." Her antennae crackle, her legs disappear and her body is reduced to a glowing shell. "And then," relates Dillard, "this moth-essence, this spectacular skeleton, began to act as a wick ... She burned for two hours, until I blew...
...Benassi of Sassuolo, Italy. In 1923, when she was eleven, she suffered acute peritonitis, and by the time a doctor was called he judged her beyond help. A nun at Eva's school, however, organized prayers to Neumann for healing and touched the girl's swollen abdomen with a picture of the bishop. That night the disease disappeared...