Word: gullet
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...poems. Frank O'Hara's "A Prayer to Prospero" reads smoothly and is relatively easy to understand, but after half a dozen re-readings it still passes smoothly down my gullet like a puree, without making any positive impression. "The Fiction of an Afterthought" by George A. Kelly is a different matter: it is far too elaborate and obscure for my taste, but many of its lines at least make impressions--and mostly favorable ones, though Kelly has a regrettable fondness for words like "defiling," and "infinitely," and a line like "The awkward dignity of death, seems prefabricated...
...such cases, it is possible for surgeons to cut out most of the tubelike gullet, pull the stomach high into the chest cavity and connect it directly to the back of the throat. Such an operation, however, can take up to seven hours to perform. The chances of 75-year-old Grimes surviving it were slight. Sinai Staff Surgeon Edgar Frank Berman decided to try something else...
...time Albert Grimes came to his attention, Dr. Berman was ready to carry his experiment a step further. It took the surgeon just over an hour to cut out six inches of Grimes's cancerous gullet and sew a plastic tube into its place. Within a month his patient, back on a soft diet, had begun to recover from the effects of starvation and to gain back some of the 40 pounds he had lost. Last week, still at the hospital, but spry and full of jokes about his lack of front teeth, Patient Grimes was looking forward...
...just how much dough could be squeezed out of Junior-a process approached in much the same spirit as that with which the Texas Rangers squeezed information out of Mexican bandits-it seemed improbable that the growing nervous system could stand much more stimulation, or that the tender, childish gullet could gulp down more bread, breakfast food, candy or soft drinks...
...They get Micheline Prelle, of the Rive Gauche. And Johnnie Garfield. He's a good actor, Danny. He's a great actor. And Orley Lindgren. They say he's good, too, but if I had my way I'd ram that little brat's teeth down his gullet. I never saw anything as stupid as a lousy kid actor trying to talk Hemingway...