Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressman came back white-hot mad. The first sign of trouble came from a regular source of trouble: Montana's acid, acrid Senator Burton K. Wheeler. He was against drafting fathers. The issue boiled briefly, but by week's end. under a mass of cogent argument against it and the pressure of heavy fighting in Italy, Wheeler's support faded utterly...
...picture. Here Eddy is Anatole Carron of the Paris Opera, who loves operatic Understudy Christine Dubois (Susanna Foster). She seems fated to go on understudying indefinitely until befriended by Enrique Claudin (Claude Rains). For Christine, Claudin has a vast but secret passion. Fired from the orchestra, a pan of acid is thrown at him, starts him on his exhilarating career as Phantom...
...Angeles' Will Rogers Jr., serious son of the late famed humorist, was not so sure that Congress' decisions were for the best. Off on a mission to London, he sent his constituents an acid personal résumé of Congress' work. An ardent Roosevelt man, he wrote...
...When Tom was frightened both his face and his stomach lining turned pale. When Tom was depressed, his stomach lining, which usually reddened and increased its secretion of acid after a dose of beef bouillon, hardly responded at all to such feeding. When Tom got mad, his face got red and so did his stomach. (This happened when an officious clinic secretary angered him.) More than any other emotion, anxiety increased the amount of blood in the stomach membrane and the amount of acid secretion. When Tom was anxious (e.g., worry about his stepdaughter's illness and death...
...ulcer developed when the doctors merely dropped gastric juice on it. The spot bled and grew for four days. Meanwhile the whole stomach lining became inflamed and produced more gastric juice than before. The doctors found "a vicious cycle is set up [by stomach ulcers], since the acid gastric juice in contact with a denuded region induces further acid secretion." The doctors healed the ulcer in three days by bandaging it with a petrolatum poultice. Atropine, which is often given to soothe ulcer sufferers, cut down Tom's mucus secretion. Therefore the doctors believe atropine should not be generally...