Word: canalized
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History has traveled the alimentary canal forever. George Washington worried in his very first days as President in 1789 about how to hold official dinners, so important a part of stewardship did he consider the evening ritual. Power was dispensed in the evening at the table, reasoned John Adams, just as it was during...
...ornate halls of the Kremlin to the small, simple rooms of the White House is apt to please him. He does not like ostentation. So the Reagan folks will ply their important visitor with plain native dishes like Maryland crab and pumpkin pie. CIA analysts believe Gorbachev's alimentary canal can handle even Reagan's favorite, macaroni and cheese. But will he be able to digest the Prince of Darkness, Richard Perle, who is scheduled to attend the state dinner? In Geneva, Gorbachev cooled at the sight of Perle, the former Assistant Secretary of Defense and a powerful skeptic about...
...occupies one of five permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council, the Soviet Union has long been one of the U.N.'s pickier dues payers. Moscow has consistently refused to ante up for special operations that it opposed politically, starting with a peacekeeping force at the Suez Canal in 1956. But last week the Soviets announced that they will mop up their red ink, paying a total of $197 million in outstanding debts owed for peacekeeping operations in the Middle East dating back to 1975. Moscow's check will erase its current IOUs, but not its historical ones...
...Well," said Willie, freshening up his cup with a jolt of hootch. "He said he thought the Egyptians had a right to the Suez Canal...
...difficulties of separating them were clear from X rays. The boys had separate brains, but they shared a major vein in the back of the head called the sagittal superior sinus, a large canal through which blood flows toward the heart. Past efforts to separate similarly joined twins had resulted in either death or brain damage. Indeed, one such attempt by doctors in Chicago in 1981 ended tragically with both children bleeding to death on the operating table. Theresia, 20, and Josef Binder, 36, searched in their own country and the U.S. for a medical team that could offer their...