Word: galling
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...Gall-bladder disease is becoming more common as the proportion of oldsters in the population increases. The usual form is cholecystitis (inflammation of the gall bladder), resulting from the formation of stones in the gall bladder. Sometimes, the stones immediately signal their presence by causing sharp pain. In such cases, surgery is performed promptly. But many gallstones lie dormant for years-and it is this "silent" type that sent the Mayo Clinic's Dr. Martin A. Adson into debate with fellow surgeons...
Apart from their petrifying boredom, the one quality that unites both these musicals is effrontery. Her First Roman has the gall to take Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra and suffocate it in dullness...
...Canal. HEW Secretary Wilbur Cohen cuts wood to "work up a good sweat and work off my hostilities," while Interior Secretary Stewart Udall makes it part of his job to explore his 28,051,328-acre domain in the National Parks System. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, who had a gall bladder operation earlier this month, is now recuperating at home, turning his convalescence "into a most enjoyable vacation...
There was also the problem of the bile ducts. The donor liver had come with its gall bladder and ducts attached. Rather than attempt a dangerously delicate joining of the common duct to the duodenum, Moore decided to attach the new gall bladder itself to the duodenum, allowing the bile to bypass the common duct. The entire operation took eight hours. Not until Tommy Gorence was sitting up and eating well, apparently making a good recovery, did the Brigham publicize the case. Tommy made good progress for four weeks, then ran into difficulties with a lung infection, a common complication...
...Vietnamese irregulars in 80-odd bases, mostly tiny outposts along the Laotian and Cambodian borders. They run the most economic and perhaps the most unusual operation in the war, carried out on an annual budget of just over $100 million and a seemingly limitless supply of gall and resourcefulness...