Word: molar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smiled again, admitted that he had been wondering the same thing himself. "I think maybe I should check up," he said. At week's end, having checked, he went to Walter Reed Hospital to take care of the tests and also get rid of a split upper left molar...
...been bothered lately by the tooth's roughness. Before the President went on vacation, White House Dentist Lieut. Colonel James Fairchild checked and found the molar split. It was not painful, but there was danger of infection. Fairchild's decision: extraction. As a precaution against excessive bleeding, Ike was taken off the anticoagulant he gets six times a week as a part of his heart therapy. Armed with X rays, Colonel Robert B. Shira, head of Walter Reed's oral-surgery section, yanked the tooth, sent him on his way in 15 minutes...
...Molar gone, Ike moved along to the hospital's main building, and the same third-floor VIP suite where he recovered 21 months ago from ileitis. Next morning appeared three of the neurologists who were called in after his stroke-Georgetown's Dr. Francis M. Forster, Columbia's Dr. H. Houston Merritt, and Walter Reed's Lieut. Colonel Roy E. Clausen Jr. They ordered an electroencephalogram and electrocardiogram, spent 65 minutes studying the results and checking their patient. Verdict at tests' end: the President was completely recovered from the stroke; the defect in his speech...
...Molar Opposites. In San Diego, Mrs. Marjorie Lee McClurken, suing for divorce, testified that because her husband refused to pay for professionally-made choppers, she was forced to buy an instruction book, make her own false teeth...
...most awesomely rugged scenery. Within reach of the big cities are such sights as the magnificent, white marble Taj Mahal at Agra, the ancient Holy City of Benares, Mt. Everest looming over the green tea gardens of Darjeeling. Off the beaten track are trips to the village of Molar Bund, 16 miles from New Delhi, which is entirely inhabited by snake charmers, and to the famed cave temples of Elephanta and Ajanta. For $1,500 per person, two-week tiger hunts can be arranged; a rebate is guaranteed if no tiger is seen, but not if the hunter misses, since...