Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Books. Surgery on dogs was no less essential to the perfection of stomach and intestinal operations (see below). And a surgeon must learn his skill by work on dogs*: he could no more learn to open the human chest and remove a lung by reading a textbook than a Rubinstein could become a pianist without touching a keyboard. Millions of men & women now living would have died, or suffered immeasurably more, if insulin and penicillin had not been tested and retested on animals. With some drugs, each batch must be so tested before it can be sold...
...next book, "The Loved One," a cheery tale of the appalling decadence of a Hollywood cemetery, was a kick in the stomach to his well-wishers. "Helena" is still another...
...uniformed private named Leslie Coffelt went down, dying, with bullets in his chest, stomach and legs; Plainclothesman Joseph H. Downs toppled over, shot in the stomach and chest. There was one last cacophony of shots, shouts and tinkling glass. The first gunman, bending over, frantically trying to reload, was hit and sprawled out, hat awry, heels kicking; the second lurched backward over a low boxwood hedge, stone dead with a bullet through his ears...
...Fights Back. Capp himself thirsts continually for the uproar and excitement of New York, and spends from ten days to two weeks every month in a suite at Manhattan's Warwick Hotel. He loves "21," the Stork Club, and the Sixth Avenue delicatessens. Though he has a delicate stomach, he forces it to accept "food that fights right back" and is constantly chewing soda-mint tablets in an attempt to placate its outraged state...
There were no serious injuries on Saturday, only the customary bruises. Bob Stargel was still limping yesterday and Red Wylie is definitely out of the Army game. Hank Rate, first string defensive end, dove for a pass in yesterday's practice, came down on his stomach, and had to leave the field. The extent of his injury if any is not yet known...