Word: balloonful
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...Wangensteen's ulcer patients, who has had no food for 15 hours to make sure that his stomach is empty, sits in a chair and gets a local anesthetic sprayed into his throat. He then feels little discomfort as the surgeon shoves a rubber balloon down his throat, through his gullet and into his stomach. Cold absolute alcohol drips into the balloon through attached tubing until the patient feels his stomach distended, as though after a heavy meal. Then he lies on a table and pumping begins...
...alcohol coolant is run through the balloon for an hour. Then, after five minutes for thawing, the balloon is pulled out. The patient can get up at once and leave the hospital or clinic. Within two hours he can eat a hearty meal...
...Student Center. Saturday it was the world. For hours we wandered around, came and left and came back again. Or just looked in wistfully as we hurried to other places. Inside the high walls we found a kaleidoscope of color and language. Voices and faces. Magic reflected in a balloon. Thin and flaky countries. Rich and buttery countries. Somewhere mixed in with the fire-smell of sausages, the Armenian girl's long veil, the proud colors of an African cloth--somewhere there is what we really are. Taste something strange and sweet and wonder. Or smile from the warmth...
...Administration launched a trial balloon for its European recovery program May 8. Truman's mother was sick in Kansas City at the time, and so he authorized Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson to replace him at a meeting of plantation owners in Cleveland, Miss. Acheson omitted the particulars, but his general message was clear: the United States ought to be conscious of Europe's post-war plight and ought to offer...
...revolutionary who toppled the 268-year Manchu dynasty in 1911. Caesar's Roman legions tramp through a lengthy examination of the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Air Command. The antecedents of Samos. the U.S.'s TV spy satellite, are tracked back across 100 years, when a balloon-borne camera produced an aerial view of Boston...