Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sleeping officers in the regimental headquarters-so easily that they grew careless. Varela Gomes burst into the room of the acting commandant, a major, and ordered him to put up his hands. Instead, the major whipped out a submachine gun, dropped Varela Gomes with five bullets in the stomach, and escaped to give the alarm...
...play a concert, Pianist John Browning follows a simple routine: he eats an early dinner (steak and baked potato), takes a short brisk walk to the concert hall, touches his fingers to his toes 25 times. The acrobatics, he explains, are to get the blood out of his stomach and into his hands, where it belongs. Over the years, the exercises have proved remarkably effective-at 28, Browning is one of the most gifted pianists of his generation. Last week, playing with the New York Philharmonic under Guest Conductor Georg Solti, he reminded audiences just how fine...
...along the horizon instead of upward over his head, the explosion might well have caught him in the face. Less stoically, shaken aides hustled the protesting Generalissimo off to a Spanish air force hospital for his first in-patient treatment since 1916, when Riff rebels wounded him in the stomach in Spanish Morocco. At the hospital, Spain's top surgeons removed fragments of Franco's gun and shooting glove from his hand, saved his badly torn index finger. Three days later, despite continuing pain, the portly chief of state was back in the palace, polishing up his year...
...actor altogether to devote himself to being a TV executive. Says he: "It's the vanity of the old ham. I look at myself in a TV Guide picture and say, 'Oh, those hog jowls.' I'm tired of trying to hold my stomach...
...pain-killing drugs. In cases of thyroid removal or hernia operations, the number of doses of opiates was half the usual average and the hospital stay was also cut in half. Hypnosis is less successful in operations such as removal of the gall bladder or part of the stomach. Dr. Kolouch suspects that, besides the severity of the operations, there are other reasons not yet clear...