Word: pouchful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lost in an Igloo. They made an odd pair. They called each other "Joey"-the Australian word for an infant kangaroo-but there was never doubt as to who was in whose pouch. Perles used to put his name to Miller's early essays for the feature page of the Chicago Tribune-possibly the strangest newspaper collaboration since Marx used to sign Engels' pieces for the New York Tribune. Perles set Miller up to meals and a hotel room, and thus, Perles announces grandly, "the stage was set for the Tropic of Cancer...
...scooped the world on the Russian famine. Within a few weeks he assigned me as permanent Tribune correspondent in Moscow. I stayed in Russia about a year and a half. Sam Spewack of the New York World, two others and myself smuggled out news through the American Relief diplomatic pouch. We were caught when the Soviets broke the treaty and opened the mailbags. At this time Colonel McCormick sent his famous "ultimatum" to the Soviet government; addressed to Foreign Affairs Minister Chicherin, it read...
...sewed up, his body began reacting, building up a thick-walled pouch around the plastic bag. In 30 to 50 days, the pouch had completed the first of three distinct layers of tissue, and at the end of 90 days the smooth muscle tissue that discharges the bladder at will had been formed. Meanwhile, the pouch had adhered to the surrounding body tissues and to the severed ends of the ureters and urethra...
...regenerated tissue posed an interesting question. Some layers were probably the result of the body's normal healing process, and others may have been formed from blood cells; connective tissue undoubtedly was formed from the ureters and urethra. But the appearance of smooth muscle in the pouch was, in the words of the doctors, "more difficult to rationalize" : true regeneration of smooth muscle has been observed only in rare situations, and mostly in animals. After considering several possible sources, doctors could only conclude that the smooth muscle in the new bladder may somehow have been formed from the primitive...
...federal budget should be balanced. In his twelve years as President, he never managed to make ends meet. In 1952 Dwight Eisenhower proclaimed that a balanced budget would be one of the key aims of his Administration. This week, when he submitted his second budget to the Congress, the pouch was still painfully distended...