Word: colons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shot through a blue filter, evocative of the dark world of the unconscious, which is also the locale of Langham's latest novel. Here, characters wrestling with their inadequacies starkly confront the twin problems of living and dying. Gielgud is himself dying--in the most undignified way imaginable, his colon having acquired a will of its own--as he composes the novel, his final attempt to resolve his tortured past. Struggling with mortality, he confronts at last his anguish over his wife's suicide, spending a sleepless night ordering his memories to achieve a form of aesthetic absolution...
...Named for its discoverer, the German pediatrician Theodor Escherich, who isolated it from feces in 1885, and for its habitat, the colon...
Like last summer, when he didn't notify Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon about his plans to invite heads of state for a summit conference at the Rockefellers' resort, he caught even statehood's advocates by surprise. So it seems unlikely that Ford simply meant to pay off Governor-elect Carlos Romero Barcelo, a statehooder and a closet Republican, for the convention votes Puerto Rican delegates gave him. A day or so after his pronunciamento, Romero's Washington commissioner Baltasar Corrada del Rio held a press conference to say that statehood now would be premature...
...addition to puffing on a pipe, Malcolm indulges in hazardous foods like beef, which has been linked to both colon cancer and heart disease...
...letter, her doctor, who is the president of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, said that no recurrence of her disease was to be expected as the disease was non-cancerous and "she is at this time and will be in the future physically capable to practice medicine and be a medical student...