Word: appendix
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Strapped to an improvised operating table lay Andre di Bernardi, a spiritualist suffering from an inflamed appendix. While a phonograph played Gounod's Ave Maria, mediums "materialized" Dr. Luiz Gomes do Amaral, who died 19 years ago. The patient waited, fully conscious and quivering. He felt clammy hands on his body, a tingling scratch on his abdomen. A soft voice reassured him that he would feel no pain. Water splashed in a pail by his side as if an invisible surgeon were washing invisible hands...
...promised that virtually all of the shackles would be dropped from business when Germany quit on V-E day. The momentum of war production in 1944 would practically be enough to win the war against Japan. And WPB, which controlled the U.S. industrial economy, would shrivel to a vermiform appendix, which the end of the Jap war would snip...
...France is the warden of the great interests of civilization. . . . France is and must remain a great African power... . We have no reason to feel crushed by an inferiority complex which might lead us to consider our country an appendix to other states...
Crisis in The Netherlands. In the narrow sectors of liberated Holland the crisis was less acute, but the Maastricht appendix was inflamed. And over all liberated Holland the fear of hunger washed like the sea through the Nazi-blasted dikes. For it was chiefly the most industrialized sections of Holland that had been liberated. There was no meat, scarcely any bread. It was believed that reserves of fuel (and hence electric power) could not last out the month. Hordes of refugees from the flooded regions had swarmed into the cities, further complicating the food crisis...
...Enoch and his colleague, W. Kurt S. Wal-lersteiner, use suspensions of the pure living penicillin mold for injections. Only a small percentage of the material is active drug, but it has achieved some remarkable cures: e.g., a hemophiliac boy with a ruptured appendix. He recovered without an operation...