Word: ailments
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...mark, it was Fred Astaire. And if I was black and blue, it was Gene Kelly." Not to say that both men didn?t work their leading ladies hard. Debbie Reynolds, co-starring with Kelly in "Singin? in the Rain," was rehearsed so relentlessly she suffered exactly the same ailment as Rogers had with Astaire on "Top Hat": bleeding feet...
...mother, one becomes something of an expert on scary disease names. Shortly after giving birth, some switch in your brain opens up a cerebral vat into which you pour the name of every horrific childhood ailment yet discovered. And they stay there, stewing and bubbling over every time your child looks the tiniest...
...would be hard for donors to lie: donors, who can be disqualified just because they strike a staff member as odd, meet frequently with "donor managers" and must update their information regularly. Yet California Cryobank is being sued by a woman whose child has a serious kidney ailment not included on the donor's family medical profile. The donor, says Sims, did not know his family had the disease...
AILING. RUSH LIMBAUGH, 50, conservative radio commentator; from a rare inner-ear ailment that has rendered him virtually deaf. Limbaugh told his 20 million listeners that he planned to continue to broadcast--if necessary, without callers. "All I've lost is my ability to hear," he said. "It doesn't mean I've lost my ability to communicate...
...extends the tradition's emotional and psychological reach. Jakes was 10 when his father, a West Virginian who owned a janitorial business, developed a kidney ailment and died slowly over the next five years. The son comforted his mother and mopped blood from around the dialysis machine. The experience, which he terms "living between life and death," seems to have engendered a kind of fearless openness. As a preacher, Jakes takes on still-taboo topics like physical and sexual abuse and the shame of incarceration with a cathartic and psychologically acute explicitness. (Speaking to 64,000 women in New Orleans...