Word: mastoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sometimes hampers her onstage). The polio attack and her father's absence (he returned when she was ten, left again when she was 18) left Renata desperately dependent on her mother. One of the bitterest shocks of her childhood, she remembers, was going to see Giuseppina after a mastoid operation. A surgeon had sliced through a facial nerve, paralyzing one side of her mother's face. "She went in a bella donna" says Renata. "She came out disfigured. I cursed the surgeon-I wanted to kill...
...left eye. He fought Pathan tribes men in India, Irishmen in Ireland, his own superior officers wherever they blocked him. He fought slackness in his men, sometimes seemed even to consider death a kind of slackness. Halting at the bed side of a soldier critically ill with a mastoid infection, Wintle snapped: "It is an offense for a dragoon to die in bed. You will get better at once. And when you do, see that you get your hair...
...Page Pitt, 55, is head of the Marshall College department of journalism in Huntington, W. Va. He has been almost totally blind since the age of five, when a mastoid infection left him with 2% vision in his left eye. 3% in his right. With the help of friends, who read to him, Pitt was able to go through school and college. He became a reporter on the New York World, later went into teaching...
...been easy. She bragged that she had been in more than 50 hospitals from coast to coast, and in only one (San Francisco's Southern Pacific Hospital) had a physician got wise to her. The queer dilation of her left pupil was caused (she thought) by a mastoid operation when she was 14. She bit her lip to get blood which she placed in her ear. ("I made it appear to squirt from my ear by shaking my head.") Vomiting, she claimed, was easy, and her complaints of double vision were not always false. Sometimes faulty vision actually developed...