Word: gall
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...Well gents I got such virile gall...
...That gall bids me to ask of youse...
...packed as the Prime Minister rose to speak, and in the visitors' gallery a phalanx of 21 ambassadors waited expectantly. Sir Winston explained that he was filling in for his ailing Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who will be away from his desk "for several months" after two gall bladder operations. But his speech was bold Churchillian, not cautious Foreign Office. "My knowledge, such as it is," said the 78-year-old Prime Minister, "is not mainly derived from books or documents about foreign affairs, but through having lived through them for a long time...
...departure for a series of conferences in Turkey, Greece and Italy, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was told by his doctors to cancel his trip. Reason: his chronic cholecystitis (inflammation of the gall bladder) demanded an immediate operation...
Living Assets. Corporations with health programs (which range in cost from $35 to $125 a year for each executive) are convinced that they are hardheaded business investments. In the 18,000 examinations that General Motors executives have undergone since 1944, ailments such as gall bladder trouble, which could be cured by a change of diet, serious sinus infections and potentially fatal malignancies which required surgery have been discovered. In G.M.'s program, the director Dr. Max Burnell, has calculated that 422 persons underwent operations after the examinations disclosed hidden ailments. Jones & Laughlin's medical director, Dr. John Laurer...