Word: scars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...injury required surgery, leaving a prominent scar on Callahan's back. To this day, Callahan has trouble even jogging. It meant the end of playing days for an athlete who was a standout not only on the gridiron but also on the basketball court as a member of the Harvard Classics...
...Washington was eager to retire after his years as a soldier, but there were some who urged him to become a military despot, if not an absolute monarch. Andrew Jackson, the hero of New Orleans, rode into the White House with two bullets in his body and a white scar across his face. When South Carolina tried to annul new federal tariffs, Jackson sent soldiers to Charleston harbor and muttered about marching south with 50,000 men. William Henry Harrison was the hero of Tippecanoe; Ulysses Grant served under Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War, before going on to glory...
...pants, embedding themselves in his legs. One shard burned its way into his throat. After the field surgeon in Pleiku extracted a chunk close to his jugular vein, an opening the size of a quarter remained in his neck. "I was fascinated by the hole," he says, rubbing the scar. "When I looked in the mirror, I could see my Adam's apple...
Last November, in a two-hour operation, Dr. August's team removed the cancer plus a margin of surrounding tissue, leaving Fallscheer with a 5-cm (about 2- in.) scar in an otherwise normal-looking breast. To catch any residual cancer cells, she received six weeks of daily radiation therapy, which produced a light suntan but left no permanent trace. "A lumpectomy plus radiation does not cure more women than mastectomy," says radiation oncologist Allen Lichter of the University of Michigan, "but it creates fewer physical and emotional scars." Fallscheer concurs: "It was only after I saw Dr. August that...
...friends who used to come here don't anymore," says Peter, adding that he's been coming to the Bow for 20 years. He points to a scar near his eye, which he got when someone cut it with a revolver at a fight outside the Bow during the seventies...