Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lives in the village of Union City (pop. 1,500), dropped a note to ailing Pope Pius XII telling him two old-fashioned home cures for hiccups. Mrs. Goodman's first remedy: breathing into a sealed paper bag through a hole cut to fit the hiccupper's mouth-a prescription she once got from a doctor. She also mentioned her own time-tested therapy, "even better than that of the doctor": repeatedly emptying the lungs by exhaling in long drawn-out breaths. Last week, good Presbyterian Goodman got a letter from the Vatican's Secretariat of State...
...Digestion. At the hiatus. Dr. Swan pulled the jejunum over, made an opening in its side, and stitched it to the mouth of the stomach. What distinguished his technique from similar opera tions for this purpose was that he was careful to hook up with the cardia, part of the valve which keeps acid stomach juices from percolating back up toward the mouth. (Without a cardia, he is convinced, the patient would later have ulcers or other upsets.) This stitching done. Mike had two digestive tracts, beginning with the inverted "Y" at the hiatus...
...East Side Mothers," urging the trial judge to "give this mother back to her child," the court sided with Gloria's aunt. Under her care Gloria did in time grow up and did indeed marry. At the age of 17, a dark-eyed beauty with a sulky mouth in the Katharine Hepburn style, she swept down the aisle of a Santa Barbara church on the arm of an obscure, two-fisted, once-divorced actor's agent and became...
...about 10% deviation. But all I wanted was a functional wrist." In spite of many injuries, Stapp is still reasonably functional, but his most recent sled rides have made it hard for him to stay so. Last month at Holloman he climbed into a nine-rocket sled. In his mouth he held a rubber "bite block'' so that the jolting would not crack his teeth His helmet was fastened firmly so that the wind would not break his neck. Four strong nylon belts lashed him to the seat His elbows were lashed together by a strap behind...
MEXICAN CATTLE will soon be flowing to U.S. markets for the first time in 19 months. Mexico has finally stamped out its epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease, and the U.S. will officially open the border on Jan. 1 to cattle crowding stockyards south of the Rio Grande...