Word: bileful
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...well as a captive audience in wife Jane, who shared all of his symptoms and capped them with migraine headaches of her own. Many a letter finds Carlyle with his ear cupped to the inner symphony of psychosomatic complaints: "Alas, alas, I am losing my eyesight (sad symptom of bile) by stooping over this flat table." In the country, a cow lowing in pasture could ruin his night's sleep. London was all "noise, unwholesomeness, dirt and fret." In Germany, all coffee resembled a "physic." Paris proved a "jump into the red-sea of mud," where "I have...
...enough to jolt Britain's weekend quiet. Sir Winston is going on 79. He has been shouldering the extra burden of being his own Foreign Secretary. There was also the frantic go-around of the coronation. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, convalescing in the U.S. from a bile-duct operation, would not be back on the job for at least another four months, and there was no assurance that when he did get back he would be able to operate at full steam. Wan, irritable and sometimes forgetful of late, Sir Winston, it appeared, had simply worn himself down...
Died. Dr. Frank Howard Lahey, 73, internationally famed surgeon and founder of Boston's Lahey Clinic; of a heart ailment, 17 days after he assisted in a bile-duct operation on Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden; in Boston...
...After a bile duct operation at Boston's New England Baptist Hospital, Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was reported "reasonably comfortable and in satisfactory condition...
...past 2½ years the Army has saved $153 million by substituting poly for rubber as insulation for battlefield communication wire and cable. But Bakelite's President Bunn and other poly pushers think their market has barely been touched. Surgeons have successfully substituted poly tubing for bile ducts and poly film for brain membranes. Because of its flexibility and moisture-proof qualities, even at below-freezing temperatures, poly's biggest potential market may be in packaging fresh and frozen vegetables and other foods...