Word: livered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pledges were marched to a buffet table. On a tray lay thick slices of oil-soaked raw liver, each about the size of a club sandwich. Gagging and coughing, the first six pledges managed to get the liver down without chewing it; that was part of the ritual...
Pledge No. 7 was blue-eyed Richard T. Swanson, 21, of Hollywood, a freshman at the U.S.C. dental school. He tried to swallow the liver three times, gagged, removed it, tried once more. On his fourth try, Pledge Swanson choked and fought for breath. The brothers swatted his back, laid him face down across the table. The liver remained in his throat. Swanson struggled to his feet, stumbled out the door and collapsed. Someone called an ambulance...
...started Free Associations in 1944, then laid it aside to spend most of the next decade turning out his definitive three-volume biography of the master. When he returned to the story of his own life, there was time to carry it only through World War I before liver cancer killed him. Ironically, despite all the evidence of a lifetime's discipleship, Jones to the last wrote scathingly of disciples, insisting: "I have always been much too independent to play that part...
...matters little what a patient is suffering from. Dr. Niehans claims cures of dwarfism in children, underdeveloped genitals or breasts, obesity, mongolism, some forms of mental retardation, absence of menstruation, homosexuality, habitual abortion, low (but not high) blood pressure, cirrhosis of the liver, reduced sexual desire, impotence, arteriosclerosis, and some forms of heart disease. Diagnosis and treatment are decided on the basis of a still controversial urinalysis, in which the proportions of certain "ferments" are supposed to show which glands or organs are out of whack...
...more than a year before his quiet coup, Sarit was Thailand's absentee strongman, with an obedient Premier in office and a contented young King Phumiphon staying regally above politics. But Sarit was spending so much time in Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C. because of his liver-the result of a lifetime of high living-that some of the country's tolerated bad habits had become intolerable. To break up the entrenched corruption and to ward off the increasing appeal of Communism, Sarit decided to take on the premiership in person. He liked to think...