Word: bladdered
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...pressed against the rough wooden board smelling of carbolic soap. The first three strokes seemed to split his body in two. "Each new stroke lit up an electric bulb behind his eyeballs and caused an explosion inside his skull. He heard himself burst into long, savage screams, felt his bladder empty itself, his stomach throw up its contents over the table. There was lightning and thunder, the splitting of skin, the convulsions of choking from the grimy sponge they had thrust into his mouth to silence him." As he felt himself pass out, his thin, fading voice muttered: "I have...
...with a few broken bones and no obviously dangerous injury. Later he has sickened and died from internal damage of which his doctors were unaware. Lethal internal blows may also be dealt not by the impact of internal organs themselves, but by food in the stomach, urine in the bladder, blood in a chamber of a man's heart. Captain Hass said that if doctors had known of these crash effects in the past, many victims could have been diagnosed in time to save their lives by simple operations. Lieut. Colonel W. Randolph Lovelace, retiring president of the Association...
...youth Keats was a well-known amateur veterinary. An old lady brought him a sick cat, whose bladder Keats re moved. " 'A case of letting the bag out of the cat,' he remarked afterwards to Chap...
...Metz in 1870 (and, a month later, to become Commander in Chief of France's Army of the Rhine), he was heard to mutter: "Nous marchons a un désastre. (We're marching to a disaster.)" Napoleon III, unable to sit a horse (because of bladder trouble), his face rouged (to conceal his deathly pallor from his troops), followed close behind General MacMahon's doomed army. When MacMahon blundered into a German trap at Sedan, the Emperor mounted a horse despite his pain, rode along the firing line for hours seeking death. It never found...
...displeased over an article O'Donnell wrote-facetiously sniping at U.S. censorship-that he informally awarded him a German Iron Cross. *Sample rumor: many pregnant WAACs have been shipped home from North Africa. Fact: three of 250 have been sent home, for 1) unsuitable temperament, 2) gall-bladder ailment, 3) legitimate childbirth...