Word: colonize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bogota's plush-and-gold Colon theater, 500 blue-ribboned Conservative delegates last week nominated pouchy-eyed Laureano Gomez, 60, as their candidate in next month's presidential elections. In Colombia, which has seen little peace since the Bogota uprising of April 9, 1948, this amounted to a declaration of bitter political-if not civil...
...Colon countered that any such federal payment of doctors would involve undue government control over them...
William's difficulties probably started with diet, says Miss Gardner in Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics. Like most people in the Middle Ages, he ate too much in summer and too little in winter; that, plus lack of sanitary arrangements in his castle, helped produce constipation in a colon already sluggish. He got fat, a diverticulum or sac developed in the colon, and the sac became inflamed...
...found attendants almost uniformly brutal and degraded. As one patient observed, they were mostly "yeggs, fruits, hopheads, ex-convicts . . . drunks, common thieves." They specialized in beating and choking patients without leaving telltale bruises. One whom Maine met "had a theory that all violent insanity was connected with the lower colon," and treated it with enemas. And attendants (who call themselves "bughousers") are responsible for at least 90% of the "treatment" given to patients in most mental institutions, says Maine. The institutions are invariably short of doctors and nurses; patients rarely get any psychiatric care...
...itinerary for the Sophomore cruise, which will last approximately eight weeks, covers most of the major Caribbean ports. Setting sail from Annapolis on June 21, the task force will travel south to Colon, Canal Zone, where it will arrive July...