Word: ribbing
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...International College of Surgeons meeting in Los Angeles how he had routed out his cameramen at 1 a.m. when he got the call to operate on Andy. The resulting films showed the X ray and progress of the operation. Under general anesthesia he cut out Andy's fifth rib, pumped out the milk and cola, worked around the heart to get at the esophagus. Then he sewed up the hole. Andy's recovery was complicated by infection in the chest cavity, but antibiotics took care of that...
...With Jockey Willie Hartack beating out his usual rib-rattling tattoo (TIME, Feb. 10). Calumet Farm's Iron Liege sprinted home by half a length at Florida's Hialeah to win the $65,700 McLennan Handicap and Calumet stable's first major purse of the 1958 racing season...
Nature's Way (by Herman Wouk) is a loud farce, full of rib-nudging situations, about a young musicomedy composer and his wife. It opens forte, with the wife six months pregnant. It next reveals that the young couple are four months married. Then the composer's homosexual collaborator appears, to lure the husband to Venice as a better place to work. Among other callers in the expensive, brick-walled penthouse are a very modern and very muddled obstetrician, a very airy and very ruthless lady decorator. Eventually there is a second homosexual, and ultimately a batch...
...Liberace's home in suburban Los Angeles, grabbed their 68-year-old mother, Mrs. Frances Casadonte, as she stepped outside the house, and kicked her unconscious. The attackers stole nothing from the $75,000 house. Said one, as Mrs. Casadonte lay gasping from bruises and a fractured rib: "This will give him something to laugh about." Said the other: "Kick her again and we'll have something to laugh about." Said Liberace:,."We are unaware of the reason...
Last week Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver was telling an improbable yarn about the G.O.P., but asserting that it "could have happened." The Keef's rib-tickler: After a newsman asked a Republican Congressman to define "Modern Republicanism," a Democratic bystander gave the answer: "Modern Republicanism is excitingly and dynamically conservative. It is neither inflexibly traditional nor discordantly progressive. It is at once distinctive and secure, but never overwhelming or confining. It has dignity, quality and dependability. It is designed for men and women of early middle age with an income of over $25,000 a year...