Word: gastric
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Airlines Flight 901, nonstop from Fort Worth to Los Angeles, winged over Arizona one night last week, Passenger Francis A. Nixon, 75, lapsed into a semicoma, stricken with a gastric hemorrhage. Captain Joe Glass, the plane's veteran pilot, radioed for an ambulance and landed the DC-6 at Phoenix. Minutes later, Frank Nixon was receiving blood transfusions at St. Joseph's Hospital. The patient's son, Vice President Richard M. Nixon, was promptly notified, although his mother Hannah Nixon hated "to distress him right now when he has so much on his mind...
Blame for the outbreak fell on the central kitchen with the announcement that students from Dunster, which has its own kitchen, who were guests at Winthrop, suffered the gastric discomfort during the night...
Queen Mary, 85, was reported to be recovering after a 19-day battle with a gastric upset. The Duke of Windsor, on his way to visit her, said that because of one of his mother's well-known idiosyncrasies he had been "very worried" and unsatisfied with the secondhand reports of her condition. He had not been able to speak with her by phone because "my mother has never spoken on the telephone in her life. It is one of those strange things. She is sort of scared of it. I don't know...
...characters are costumed as giant insects-and the females first attract, then destroy the males. A few Londoners might find it puzzling, but not the editors of Picture Post. It was a wellknown U.S. phenomenon: "The women oi America ... eat their men until nothing is left but the inevitable gastric ulcer and a series of figures in blood red on a debilitated bank-statement form...
...clangor of telephone bells and interoffice squawkers, his quick temper frequently boils over. After one of these outbursts, he broods for a while, then seeks out his victim in contrition. "I'm always apologizing to somebody," he says. He has acquired that final badge of executive success, a gastric ulcer. In 1950, after finishing Jet Pilot (still unreleased) for RKO, Duke decided to take Chata and himself on his first vacation in more than ten years. A trip through Central America in a reconditioned Navy PBY provided by Howard Hughes, the vacation turned out to be just a road...