Word: gastric
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pilgrimage to the tomb of Screen Lover Rudolph Valentino each year on the anniversary of his death; by her own hand (sleeping pills, on her seventh attempt); in Hollywood. She claimed to have gone dancing with Valentino the night he was fatally stricken with an attack of peritonitis and gastric ulcers, afterwards made the headlines by announcing that they had been married and were the parents of a baby girl. Later she did marry 1) a Hollywood golf writer (it lasted a day), 2) a wealthy baron, 3) a doctor. Of her tendency to swallow overdoses of sleeping pills...
Foresight and gastric good sense are clearly visible in the dinning halls' latest decision to try out 500 round, white new trays. The old ones are becoming frayed, and were pretty ugly in the first place...
...theory, it should have been easy to draw off gastric juices through a tube and make a smear to find the distinctive cells which have been sloughed off by the cancer. But the results proved accurate in only one out of three cases, because nearly all the loose cancer cells went on down the intestinal tract or were destroyed by the stomach's digestive juices. Then Dr. Papanicolaou tried a device invented by Dr. Frederick G. Panico: a sausage-sized balloon with about 250 pieces of braided silk attached. The patient swallowed the balloon and about two feet...
...body in different ways, the Journal explains, its effects must be considered separately. For example, it is true that alcohol in the mouth stimulates the flow of saliva and thus helps digestion-but so does lemon juice. A little alcohol in the stomach increases the secretion of gastric juice, but the Journal contends that concentrations over 5% (likely to be reached after the first Martini) slow up the digestive process...