Word: appendix
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...Gopher go through prep school together and enter Harvard in 1941. "In the catch-all of a great university," Gus writes, "a tiny side-pocket exists, atrophied, isolated, inexplicable as the appendix in the digestive tract . . . Like the appendix, it gave nothing to and took nothing from the undergraduate body, yet it was never ruptured and could not be removed by surgery . . . For want of a name some called it 'the St. Grottlesex Crowd...
...Gopher enjoyed life in an appendix. For three chapters they stumbled from party to punch, from dance to debut. Pearl Harbor disrupted things; it made the parties wilder and more frequent. And then they all went into the army, all the bright young men. When they came back, some, like Gopher Marsh, had high resolves which vanished quickly, in an alcoholic solvent. Most returned happily to entertain the same old friends and same old ideas. A few, like Gus Taylor, escaped to reality...
Dave Alpers--Wilson calls him "another crackerjack"--and Bob Morrison force each other to better and better times in the 600. Alpers is ahead now, with 1:15.4 against Morrison's 1:15.6. Morrison lost his appendix just before the season opened, but bounced back to win an NAAU varsity title at the Providence games...
Appendicitis was considered a major operation in the early years of the century, and death came often during operations. It is a tribute to Bailey's skill as a surgeon that all of the 57 appendix operations during the infirmary's first ten years were successful. Another major disease, diptheria, could claim none of the 63 men struck by it during this period...
...candidates are alike in having had the usual childhood diseases and having had their tonsils out. Ike has got rid of his appendix; Adlai still has his. Neither has had any other major surgery: the nearest approach to it was removal of a Stevenson kidney stone last June, without cutting. Each has had a touch of bursitis in one shoulder...