Word: cyst
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Hogwash, said Arnie Palmer. There had been no operation; the cyst was nothing more than a little wen, and it was on his backside, not his back. "I'm just bushed," he said. He thinks he will feel better in about a month, and then he will return to the tour-in time for New York's $100,000 Thunderbird Classic Invitational and the U.S. Open...
...count his money." Too many irons in the fire, said Palmer's father: "He's got to decide whether he wants to play golf or make television films with Bob Hope." Illness, guessed sportswriters, who reported that Palmer had undergone surgery in Texas for a "painful cyst" on his back...
...woman patient's abdomen was laid open. Surgeon Olwen Silgardo was worried. The mask could not filter out the strain in his voice as he asked: "Somebody send for the old man, please." The old man hurried in without waiting to don a mask. "Is that a cyst?" he asked. "No," answered Silgardo, "it looks as though a tumor has spread." The old man asked: "Do you mind if I get my hands in there?" A nurse helped him into his surgical gloves. The two doctors proceeded to do surgery's best in a nearly hopeless case...
...watching. He had also hinted that if the strike was not settled, he might recall the state legislature to ask for special powers to show the Long Island how to run a railroad. Neither side wanted that. At midmorning Rockefeller slipped away long enough to have a cyst removed from under his right eye (six stitches) at the Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital, came back to order ham and turkey sandwiches for all, then settled down-with dark glasses and an ice pack gracing his head-to sweat out the negotiations...
...pounds and developed "a small pot," but had no idea that she was pregnant. She appeared to have menstruated and had felt no quickening life. Ellen Lewis thought the weight gain and added girth (she had bought one dress a size bigger than usual) were probably due to a cyst, and had an appointment with a gynecologist...