Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...selling part of his player. And since this was Las Vegas, side bets were laid on almost every shot. "I've never seen a tournament like this one," said Ken Venturi. "People come up to me and feel my legs and arms, and pat my stomach. They want to know how I feel and how I'll score, so they can place their bets...
Other common cancers, which have not been associated with smoking or drinking habits, e.g., those of the breast, prostate, stomach, colon, rectum and uterus, as well as leukemia, occurred at just about the same rates in both Adventist and non-Adventist patients. This uniformity led Drs. Wynder and Lemon to conclude that heavy cigarette smoking and hard drinking are indeed major factors in lung or mouth cancer and in hastening death from atherosclerosis (hardening) of the coronary arteries. "We propose," they said, "that smoking, though not causing atherosclerosis as such, adds to the already damaging effect of atherosclerosis upon...
...Landon against Franklin Roosevelt, and again in 1948 when it backed Dewey against Truman, ardent Democrat Fitzpatrick put down his crayon and went off fishing. Talking to Democrat Mauldin about his new job, Publisher Pulitzer asked what he would do if the P-D backed candidates he could not stomach. "Well," said Mauldin, "I guess I'd go fishing too." Grinned Pulitzer: "Fine...
...colleagues dosed their rats with the mildly radioactive strontium 85, which, for the purpose of the test, served as well as its deadlier big brother, strontium 90. Then the rats got the rhodizonate in moderate-to-huge doses every which way: intravenously, by injection into the peritoneal cavity, by stomach tube, and in their drinking water...
...rate of 20 inflations per minute until revival. For even more efficient operation (and to spare the finicky rescuer from intimate contact with more messy victims such as drunks), a rubber blowpipe with an S curve has been devised to fit the throat, prevent air from entering the stomach. Of 87 mostly untrained operators who tried the tube for the first time, say the researchers, none failed to revive his victim. Conclusion: all lifeguards, policemen, firemen and other official rescuers should carry such a pocket-size tube...