Word: colonization
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...stay there, setting up an ever-present threat of infection and making the condition harder to detect since the barium used to get X-ray contrast may not penetrate the diverticulum sufficiently. In the symptom-free stage of diverticulosis there may be dozens of small diverticula scattered along the colon...
...Dulles, who underwent a successful operation for cancer of the large intestine in 1956, last weekend entered the Walter Reed Army Hospital for examination of "an inflammatory condition of the lower colon"-with medical assurances that preliminary studies showed "no evidence of any recurrence of the malignancy of two years...
...more than a year, time enough to catch a breath between one night's adventure and the next. The reader of the 890-page U.S. translation must pace himself, and should be warned that the author is one up on him from the beginning. Novelist "Sergeanne" Colon is not one person but two-an apparently indefatigable French man-and-wife team (Serge and Anne) who claim to have primed themselves with 300 volumes of history before painting their cyclorama. Their scholarship is not intrusive...
...King Must Die, Renault 10. Angelique, Colon...
...post Soustelle also has the right to hire and fire anyone on the state-owned French radio and television, which gives him far more authority there than over the printed word. In Algeria, news of the appointment made the wavering Moslems cooler to De Gaulle, while the colons' Committee of Public Safety proclaimed a victory. Others saw Soustelle's appointment as a neatly timed maneuver to deprive the committee of its most dramatic grievance and hence one of its chief reasons for existence. "When the olive branch was extended to us," said one colon sadly, "we could...