Word: gall
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long queues. It can take up to two months to get an appointment to see a doctor, and such visits average about ten minutes. Referral to a specialist often takes two years, and the wait for elective surgery (like the removal of a troublesome but not too dangerous gall bladder) can take five years...
...saying he has too much gall...
...fall, claiming failing health, she took a leave to retreat to the hills of Córdoba to regain her strength. Many Argentines felt-and hoped-that she would resign. Yet 32 days later she returned to the capital, only to be hospitalized within a few weeks for a gall bladder attack that seemed more political than physical...
...scented with everything from pizza to burnt rubber. Microscopic capsules containing the odoriferous oils are embedded in the fabric; by scratching the shirt, the wearer breaks the capsules and releases the fragrance. In the past 18 months, the Miami-based company run by the King of the Smellies, James Gall, 29, has sold or supplied the fragrance for a whopping 4 million shirts reeking with more than a hundred smells. Researchers at his company, Smell It Like It Is, Inc., have had the Gall to perfect such odors as cod-liver oil, dill pickles and lamb chops. But Gall...
...much did Lyndon Johnson's low physical state, which lasted for months following his gall-bladder operation in 1965, contribute to his leadership malaise? Considerably, says his former aide Bill Moyers. L.B.J. had times of depression, became mentally flat, got testy with his staff and angry at the press. His decisions about the Viet Nam War and how much to tell the people became distorted...