Word: sackful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most surgeons prefer to cut out the gall bladder with the stones because a sack, once diseased, usually becomes inflamed again. The operation is not difficult, and since the gall bladder is not an essential organ (horses have none), a patient need only follow a low-fat diet to stay healthy...
...gall bladder is a "pear-shaped sack . . . [which] hangs from the under surface of the liver like a droplight from a ceiling." The liver manufactures from 30 to 50 ounces of bile every day, and the overflow (up to one ounce) pours into the gall bladder. From this tank, as well as from the liver, the bile trickles into the small intestine, where it helps digest fats...
...circa 334 B.C.), closes with Thomas Mann's warning to his age. St. Paul counsels the quarrelsome Corinthians ("the greatest of these is charity"). The Younger Pliny is baffled by the early Christians ("if they persevered, I ordered them to be executed"). St. Jerome eyewitnesses the Barbarian sack of Rome ("the wolves of the North have been let loose"). George Washington rejects a crown ("I must view with abhorrence"). Lincoln consoles Mrs. Bixby, whose sons had been killed in battle ("I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine. . . ."). Emerson hails Walt Whitman's Leaves...
...roll call to the name of the man who had escaped, Naval Lieut. Günther Lorentz. Able to speak English almost without an accent, Lorentz was on his way to Montreal. After escaping, he disposed of his camp uniform (brown shirt and blue shorts) and put on a sack suit he had taken with him to Canada. He found Canada was a more delightful place than he had dreamed. A gasoline station gave him a map. A friendly fellow taught him a trick unknown in Europe, how to thumb a ride. Obliging motorists gave him lifts to Toronto...
...statue of Giovanni delle Bande Nere (a Medici, only one of the family who ever became a soldier) sits before the Medici church of San Lorenzo in Florence. Its sculptor was Baccio Bandinelli who considered himself a rival of Michelangelo. Michelangelo himself said the statue looked like a sack of melons...