Word: galling
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...wanted you to know that my doctors have recommended that I undergo surgery to repair a defect at the site of the incision made during the gall bladder operation a year ago," said Johnson. His physicians suggested that the operation, along with another to remove a 3-mm. polyp from his throat (see MEDICINE), should take place in 15 to 18 days. In the meantime, he was ordered to begin "a reduced schedule of activity" at once, and to take off some weight (currently about 215 Ibs.). For that reason, he said, he was leaving the following day for Texas...
Stitch in Time? The President took considerable pains to deny that his timing had been influenced by political considerations. A small protrusion at the site of his gall-bladder incision had grown as big as a golf ball. The polyp, caused by what one doctor called "excessive voice usage," was discovered last August, and has been causing him frequent hoarseness...
...such as the one from which President Johnson is now suffering is a rupture (Latin: hernia) or break in the muscular abdominal wallIn the President's case, the break came about an inch to the right of the scar where the surgeons cut last year to remove his gall bladder. It is at the point where plastic drain tubes were left in place for four days after that operation. Such hernias are by no means rare but no one knows exactly how common they...
...abdominal surgery is not of an emergency nature doctors said. It will repair a defect in the incision made last year during Johnson's gall bladder operation...
Many a man groans and bears it when he comes home to find a TV dinner in the oven. Not Pierre Franey. The first time he found frozen dinners in his house at Valley Stream, N.Y., recalls Franey, "I was furious." His gall was on account of Gallic upbringing. Born 46 years ago in Burgundy, Franey began an apprenticeship as a kitchen boy at 14, learned to cook at Paris' Drouant restaurant (two Michelin stars), reached his culinary peak as chef of New York's Pavilion (which would undoubtedly rate three stars if Michelin graded U.S. establishments). Like...