Word: livers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife's, so it's got to have the best liver-about $25 worth a month." If the advance is not enough, there is the $2-limit poker session that Algren convenes twice a week in the basement of a North Michigan Avenue mansion. Algren figures that he has made $1,000 at poker this year-enough, in a pinch, to keep the novel going...
...With cod-liver oil and vitamins, veterinarians revived the monkey, the dogs and the bears. The eagle perked up on grain and fruit. By week's end all the beasts were feeling better, and the Barcelona zoo promised them a home. The midget, weak and undernourished, was installed in a home in Ciudad Real. All that remained of the abandoned circus was Sweikof the fox terrier, who lay down before the wagon of his absent master, and mournfully refused...
...Bonnie Johnson, 10½ weeks old, died in Little Rock, Ark. The attempt to separate them failed because their hearts were fused. In Paris, doctors were hopeful that Michéle and Nadége Aubrun would continue to make progress. Joined at the abdomen, they shared a liver and intestines. They were separated when two days...
...A.M.A. complained that advertisers are increasingly making exaggerated claims for the safety of continuous vaporizers that spread poison to kill insects and other pests, and reiterated a warning: lindane, the chemical commonly used in these gadgets, "is retained in the brain and liver and may cause serious and lasting damage to the central nervous system." Exempted from the charge: hand-operated aerosol bombs...
Some doctors, citing Kuboyama's bad liver, apparently questioned whether radiation had been the cause of death. But the cause was officially announced as "radiation disease." U.S. Ambassador John Allison issued a prompt statement of "extreme sorrow" and presented the dead fisherman's widow with a check for 1,000,000 yen ($2,777). But twinges of anti-U.S. sentiment flickered across the islands; delegations of tuna fishermen marched up and down before Japan's Foreign Ministry demanding an immediate halt of U.S. H-bomb tests, and scores of protesting Japanese paraded on foot...