Word: bagful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just born black, poor and uneducated, and you only need three strikes all over the world to be out, and I have nothing to live for but this shot of dope," says one addict. But the habit is costly: $1 for a marijuana "reefer," $3 for a "bag" (a single grain of heroin), $5 for a "deck" (three grains). A heavy user may need up to $75 a day, and that often means mugging people and sometimes killing them for the wherewithal...
...alarm bells rang, the two men coolly ladled a stream of gems into a black bag. "They heard the signal go off," said the shop's manager later, "but they didn't lose their sangfroid. They took only diamonds, emeralds and really precious necklaces. They chose well...
...severe to be relieved by aspirin. One in 20 went into shock, and eight patients had to be hospitalized, mainly for convulsions. Children are not the only victims: a Houston man was stung by a woolly worm's long back hairs when he picked up his golf bag; soon his whole left arm was throbbing with pain up to the armpit. Even with Demerol and Benadryl, he was still in pain and had a headache the next...
...French monograph, L'Exentération pelvienne, Dr. Brunschwig reports that no fewer than 116 of his 562 patients have lived five years or longer after the operation. Virtually all have been glad that they submitted to the extensive amputation, even though many have had to wear a bag strapped to their waists to collect urine and feces. Some have been able to work for years, with no outward sign of their condition...
...removing not only the vagina, cervix and uterus, but much of the lower colon and also the bladder. This necessitates making an artificial bladder from a section of small bowel, or leading the ure ters into the colon, which then empties both urine and feces into a "wet colostomy" bag. After more conventional operations for rectal cancer that has not spread widely, only fecal matter passes through the "dry colostomy" opening in the abdominal wall, because the bladder and urethra are left in tact. Since no two patients' diseases are alike, Brunschwig operations vary in the number of organs...