Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then Pike went back to teaching-as chaplain and head of the department of religion at Columbia University. Out of his typewriter began to stream a series of religious books (eight so far), including Beyond Anxiety, If You Marry Outside Your Faith, The Next Day. Out of his mouth came the kind of trenchant talk that was rare in Episcopal pulpits. In 1952 New York's Bishop Horace W. B. Donegan appointed him dean of St. John's -the largest Anglican cathedral in the world...
...finger. You have to sense when the gate is going to spring. When I leave the gate, sometimes I take my finger off the horse right away, sometimes not. You keep the horse loose. Then, out of the gate, you gather him up and set the bit in his mouth and settle his stride to the snugness you want...
...that the saliva would flow into the right eye socket and restore his vision. In a delicate, 2½-hour operation, Surgeon Mays cut into Dougherty's right cheek, freed the parotid salivary duct almost back to the ear, cut it free from the inside of the mouth with a bit of mucous membrane attached, then led it to the eye's outer corner...
...Dougherty sat in bed with increasing impatience. The doctor had told him he could expect to see again soon after the operation. Still no tears came. Then one noon Dougherty heard a lunch cart rattling down the corridor. As it stopped at the door, he smelled the food. His mouth watered-and so did his right eye. Dougherty began to see again...
...less doctors know about a disease, the longer the name they give it. Knowing nothing about the cause or cure of Dougherty's affliction (marked by ulceration of the eyes and mouth and atrophy of various glands), they have called it ectodermosis erosiva pluriorificialis...