Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Repository. In London, doctors relieved a patient's persistent pains after removing from his stomach: a razor blade, a piece of porcelain, a steel file, a lady's hair clip, a double-six domino, a key, a knife handle, a pin, a pen, two stones, two nails, two broken knife blades, three matches and four pennies...
Quick, the Needle! Said a village elder: "Before these doctors came, we depended on three brothers belonging to the barber caste. For all types of intestinal and stomach ailments, they prescribed a strong decoction of black pepper. Cholera victims were given opium. Sometimes they recovered, more often they died. The wives of the barbers acted as midwives. To keep out evil spirits, we sealed all the windows where a woman was confined, plugged her ears with cotton and locked the door. Now the blue bus doctors say there should be maximum ventilation. We follow them because we find their methods...
When the mood is on him, Lanza, can gorge his ego as freely as his stomach, and his studio bosses have sometimes tried needling him to deflate his head as well as his hide. Whether such needling does him much good is a question. Lanza hungers for praise of his voice, and, though he gets plenty, from 500 fan letters a day and from the personal entourage of nine which he rules like a comic-opera Latin American dictator, he also supplies it himself. From idolizing Enrico Caruso as far back as his childhood, he has passed through the stages...
...deep as 9,000 ft. "Every time we send the net down," says Hubbs, "we come up with something never before seen on this coast: fish with telescopic eyes, long fanglike teeth, dragonlike appearance." One fish caught has a long ratlike tail. Another, the black swallower, has an extensible stomach, convenient for heavy, infrequent meals. It can swallow a victim three times as big as itself. Another fish has a well-defined neck. Another has a huge lower jaw, a hundred times the size of the rest of its head, which it uses very much as Dr. Hubbs uses...
...main, the House voted with its stomach, not its head. Congressional spite and suspicion, centering on Harry Truman, and parochial self-interest accounted for many a vote...