Word: gastric
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...heart always was exceptionally strong; if that has given way, they reasoned, his last and best defense against death is gone. But next day good news came down from the small, white bedchamber-the Pope was feeling better, the X rays showed nothing alarming. The tentative diagnosis: a "gastric or ulcerous condition [caused by] high gastric acidity." The Pontiff still insisted that the doctors' bulletins be brought to him for his personal editing...
...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...