Word: appendix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accumulated experience, intelligence and enmity until just one more shattering blow was needed to complete his training. He got it when he disgustedly walked out of a beat-liberal campus party, picked up a tangerine on the way, and swallowed a seed that-according to Sahl-lodged in his appendix. A doctor at a Berkeley hospital referred him elsewhere when neither he nor Sue had the $450 for an emergency operation, ran after him to demand $10 as an examination fee. The appendix ruptured, Sahl recovered in a veterans' hospital, and the American Medical Association joined his repertory...
...only 17, graduated to the first-flute desk at the Philadelphia Orchestra when he was 27. Kinkaid's importance to the orchestra is so great that both Eugene Ormandy and his predecessor, Leopold Stokowski, refused to record flute solos without him; Stokie once had him freeze a diseased appendix long enough to sit through a recording session of Afternoon of a Faun...
...each day's congressional proceedings begin arriving at the Government Printing Office in the early evening in order to meet the deadline. A force of 100 proofreaders checks the Senate and House proceedings, as well as the reprinted articles, tables, etc., that go into the Record's appendix. Representatives are entitled to 60 free copies of the Record each day, Senators 100; other users pay $1.50 a month...