Word: bladdered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hawley was carrying what seemed to be a normal baby in an abnormal place -outside the abdomen. The fetus had slipped through a weak spot in the abdominal wall, left by an incision made years ago for a gall-bladder operation. Such cases are uncommon, but not unknown. Far more uncommon was the way Mrs. Hawley had carried the baby without medical attention...
More Unwashed Savages. He slashed at parsons ("bladder-headed sky-pilots") and their flocks: "It is gratifying to observe idiots crowding forward to be instructed in ignorance." He jeered at fraternal organizations ("The Improved Order of Flatheads"), composed A Rational Anthem ("My country, 'tis of thee,/Sweet land of felony"). Like many a cynic, he was an inverted idealist. He railed at corrupt politicos, fought the railroad barons, dubbed Leland Stanford "Zeland Stanford...
...replace convalescent Paul Hoffman (recently returned from a two-month leave of absence for a gall bladder operation), Harry Truman appointed Hoffman's deputy, William C. Foster, onetime machinery manufacturer who had been Under Secretary of Commerce under Averell Harriman. Hoffman had been disheartened by Congress' insistence that ECA's European currency funds should go for rearmament (although he heartily favored a separate military aid program). Nonetheless, he wrote the President, Bill Foster might well preside over "ECA's period of greatest usefulness...
...past decade, such loutish antics have kept Truth or Consequences among the top-ranking radio shows. Last week, sponsored by Philip Morris, hearty, toupee-wearing M.C. Ralph Edwards moved his slapstick-and-bladder show onto television (Thurs. 10 p.m., CBS-TV). "This is just the genesis, the little seed," he boasted of his first TV performance. "I have the feeling that, within the first half-dozen shows, we'll get into the top five TV programs...
...developed the first method of making the gall bladder visible to the X-ray machine. Thus, gall bladder diseases can generally be detected and diagnosed...