Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Obviously no one except Belaúnde had much stomach for a test of arms. Last week, backers of Haya got together with the camp of the third presidential candidate, ex-Dictator Manuel Odria, and reached an "agreement in principle" to form a national union government. Together they would have a majority in Congress when it convenes next week to settle the split election. Rumors buzzed that Haya might agree to step aside in favor of Odria as President, but that Haya's APRA Party would have the major say in the Cabinet. A coalition government headed...
...effort to ease the difficulty, Snow slid a tube down the baby's throat. It stopped short, and X rays confirmed the diagnosis: little Denise has a connecting passage between her esophagus and her windpipe, and the upper section of the esophagus ended before it reached her stomach. Further examination showed that there was no opening at the lower end of the baby's digestive tract. The X rays also suggested an abscess blocking a perforated small bowel. The big question at Salt Lake City's Latter-Day Saints Hospital was: Would little (4 lb.) Denise live...
...suspected. "Her organs looked as if someone had just wadded them in his fist and thrown them in there,'' he said. He drained off the abscess that was blocking the infant's small bowel. Next Beveridge sewed a tube into the wall of her stomach so that she could be fed. After that, he performed a colostomy -looped part of the colon (large bowel) outside the baby's body so that she could get rid of waste. Somehow, Denise was still breathing when Beveridge closed up her abdomen. But the operation was only half over...
...esophagus-but the sections were too far apart to be sewn together. All the surgeon could do was close the opening between esophagus and windpipe, and bring the end of the upper section of the esophagus outside the neck to provide drainage; Denise would depend on the stomach tube for feeding. At 6 a.m., the second incision was closed. Denise was soon able to take in and dispose of liquids...
...clopping time by dancing a jig on the front lawn of Spaso House. Russian or American, it was all Chinese to him, and so was that other whatchamacallit, abstract art. Amateur Painter Dwight Eisenhower once told him that modern art "makes me sick to the stomach," and Nikita bobbed his head approvingly: "It's the same with...