Word: hiccupped
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...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...
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...
...Florence, city employees turned off the gas; in Genoa, gardeners walked away from their flowers; throughout Italy, telephone operators engaged in a "hiccup strike" - disregarding calls or answering them irregularly. Even the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Rome closed down, as workers popped their caps for more money. Within the past month, the Bank of Italy, the Italian Atomic Energy Commission, Rome's 36 nightclubs and the rubber industry have been struck, and last week officials of the Treasury and Finance Ministry walked out - thus giving Italian taxpayers a 48-hour breather on their income...
...Historic Hiccup. Half a century ago, doctors thought that prematures just died, and there was nothing they could do to prevent it. Now all major U.S. hospitals have special incubator units for them, and the death rate has been drastically reduced. But it is still 17.3%, or 20 times as high as that for normal babies. If that death rate is to be reduced still further, medical scientists must have new, fundamental facts...