Word: bladdered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoover even mixed business with a favorite recreation, trolling for the bait-shy Florida bonefish. "You have time between bites," he explained, "to read Government documents." Presumably, the ex-President's year would have been busier yet-if he had not squandered two weeks abed after a gall bladder operation...
Beacon in the Tower. At 83, and just two months away from a gall-bladder operation, Herbert Hoover moved about a little stiffly but the trip to Brussels was, in fact, just another event in a still-crowded life. "You should not retire from work," he said in 1956, "or you will shrivel up into a nuisance . . . talking to everybody about your pains and pills and income tax." In his apartment-office in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Tower, Herbert Hoover keeps busy up to 16 hours a day, keeps two of his three fulltime secretaries on hand seven days...
Minus a pesky gall bladder, ex-President Herbert Hoover, 83, strode out of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center two weeks after his operation, pronounced himself well and ready for work in another two weeks. Hoover, who was awarded an honorary degree (his 84th) from the State University of New York while in the hospital, had some cheery advice on operations for the elderly: "Go to a good hospital and have it over with. It's not as bad as it used to be. When you get out of a hospital in two weeks...
...from locking and his bones from decalcifying, he must somehow rise to a standing position for at least an hour a day, a dizzying feat that is aided at first with a special tilt-table. The patient is also faced with the distressing fact that he cannot control his bladder and bowels. Though he is taught automatic control, the adult must put up with what embarrasses the child: he is going...
...everything out, the thoughtful gift is obvious: cuff links set with brightly colored, plastic-encased models of his stone-laden gall bladder or ulcer-ravaged duodenum. Creator of "The World's Sickest Looking Jewelry'' is Dr. Robert G. Zach, a Monroe, Wis. radiologist who is convinced, after years of peering at tangled viscera on X-ray plates, that beauty is not only all around him but inside him. Taking inspiration from the delicately twined tubes, sacs and ducts he photographed, Zach set to work with a dentist's drill and clear plastic, began passing out three...