Word: hiccup
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...Jack O'Leary hiccuped no more than any of his schoolmates. After high school he worked in a Los Angeles grocery so that he could save money to study for the priesthood. He had saved almost enough when, in 1948, he had a ruptured appendix. As soon as he began to recover from the peritonitis, Jack began to hiccup. The doctor said this was normal after such a severe abdominal upset, and it would soon stop. It never...
...number at 350. The doctors have tried such standard remedies as sedatives and drugs to slow down the impulses in the phrenic nerve, which controls the diaphragm. Jack has tried many of the unorthodox suggestions from his mailbag, and friends once tried to scare him out of his hiccups by phoning and impersonating the FBI. The scare only made him hiccup harder...
Organizer of the strike, 37-year-old Arturo Galavotti, is boss of Modena's labor and of its Communist Party. A townsman calls him "one of the harshest among the harsher members of the Communist Party." Galavotti has been disrupting Industrialist Orsi's factories with "hiccup strikes" (successive stoppages in one department after another). Last month Orsi closed the foundry, blamed rising production costs. At Galavotti's insistence, he offered to reopen this month. Orsi refused, however, to rehire 30 workers whom he called Communist troublemakers. Galavotti turned down the offer. Orsi stood pat, refused to postpone...
...said he, was like a baby who had been taking the bottle too fast; it had to have a chance to burp. The big question was: "Is it going to be just one little burp, or is it going to be a chronic hiccup which is going to kill baby...
Cuba last week had its first revolution in seven years. Compared with the butcheries that clotted up the regimes of Gerardo ("Tyrant") Machado and preceding Cuban presidents, it was as genteel as a dowager's hiccup...