Word: ear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Overworked John R. Steelman, chief of the U. S. Conciliation Service, returned to Washington at week's end, red-eyed and haggard after a trip to Milwaukee. He poured a tale of woe into the ear of his boss, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. What he said was private...
...British surgeon recently did a mastoid operation on a middle-aged man who had once been a sailor. He decided to graft some skin from elsewhere on the patient's body to the site of the operation, behind his ear. When the surgeon viewed the patient's body, he found it almost completely covered with tattooed images of naked women (one named Mary) and erotic designs. Last week in the Lancet, the surgeon, writing anonymously, told how he faced his problem...
...surgeon finally decided to take a number of small pieces of skin from between the lines of the tattooing, leaving the designs intact. In this way, he got enough for a satisfactory skin patch behind the ear...
...signed Hitler's forces crossed the Danube by pontoon, ferry and train. The occupation was advertised to the Bulgarian public, thousands of whom are violently anti-Nazi and pro-Russian, by squadrons of Nazi bombers and fighters roaring low over Sofia's roofs. Except for their ear-splitting drone the city was quiet, and along the sunny boulevards many shopkeepers unfurled the swastika. As the Nazi columns rolled into his capital, Boris of Bulgaria remained immured in his yellow palace and thought nervous thoughts. As the shrewder Balkan politicos remarked, it was all a foregone conclusion...
...death rate from measles itself is very small. New York's 20,000 cases by week end yielded only six deaths. But every severe case of measles is accompanied by bronchitis, which may turn into bronchopneumonia. Other complications to be guarded against: eye and ear infections, colitis, brain abscess, stirring up inactive tuberculosis. The mortality is highest in children under three. School age is the ideal time to have measles. Once a child has had it, he is almost always immune thereafter...