Word: hiccuped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which John-O replied with the spontaneity of a hiccup: "Making a date...
...billboard advertising the Johnsons' TV and radio station. (The gibe was late; KTBC had removed the blurb last month.) Protested Illinois' Donald Rumsfeld, who supported the bill: "The Democrats were allowing no time to debate constructive amendments. All we could do was get up and hiccup. That's a helluva lousy way to legislate...
...Last Hiccup. After the last hiccup sounded, around midnight, the House approved the bill, 245 to 138, and adjourned at 12:51 a.m. By then, most of the hundred waiting wives had flounced off indignantly on their own-some of them party-bound, but more headed for home. Bouncy little Carl Albert, the Democratic majority leader, announced: "The party's still on." Most of the Republicans were in too black a mood for celebration after the 14-hour session. Growled one G.O.P. member: "You wouldn't find me dead near the White House...
Doctors satisfied themselves that Lucy's hiccups were not a symptom of neurosis. Uremic poisoning, hiatus hernia and tumor irritation-all possible sources of chronic hiccups-were dismissed after examination. Next the diagnosticians studied Lucy's phrenic nerves, which control the spasmodic contractions of the diaphragm-in effect, the hiccup mechanism. X rays appeared to indicate irritability of the right phrenic nerve. Stopping that nerve from functioning seemed the only thing that might help...
There is a possibility that hiccups may return when the nerve regenerates eight to twelve months from now. If that happens, the surgeons may move in and sever the nerve completely. "The part of the diaphragm that the nerve controls will then no longer function," explained one of Lucy's doctors. "But you lose only 25% of your breathing capacity when you lose one phrenic nerve-which is nothing to the average person." Lucy agrees with enthusiasm. "Not one hiccup," she exulted. "I've even been trying to hiccup...