Word: stomach
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...Some centuries ago a Scandinavian explorer, Thun by name, de- voted himself of anthropological studies of North American Indian tribes. To facilitate accurate documentation, he would live as a member of each tribe for a period of months. After one such sojourn, Thun was deathly, violently ill to his stomach and went on to the next in horrendous fits vomiting and diarreah...
Poor Thun knew that his hosts would be mightily offended if he failed to partake of their bandquet and so he steeled his quaking stomach for the ordeal ahead. He managed to make it unsteadily through the-first four courses, but felt, as dessert was carried on, that if he consumed a single morsel more he would surely lose his entire dinner. He was in a quandry. But meanwhile the chief, a kindly old fellow, had observed Thun's distress and, knowing this particular bear 's fur glasse to be an unusually strong preparation, he leaned over and chanted...
...extended downward through the diaphragm, making a wide split where there is normally a tight fit. Worse still, the splitting of the arterial walls extended into parts of four branch arteries-the two renals, supplying both kidneys; the mesenteric, supplying much of the intestines; and the celiac, supplying the stomach, liver and spleen. Using a graft with six connections, Dr. DeBakey replaced the entire assemblage of arterial piping...
...than second in 14 out of his 17 years on the job, and 3) just signed a two-year $40,000-a-year contract would be a contented man. Not the Chicago White Sox's Alfonso Ramon Lopez, 56. "I am," sighs Manager Lopez, "a sufferer." A chronic stomach problem keeps him from eating raw fruits and vegetables, and forces him to drink milk (which he detests) during White Sox losing streaks...
...Said he: "These days are a little tense. I don't feel as free to go out over the country. I feel like U. S. Grant used to. He said he never faced an audience where he didn't feel uneasy and quivering in his stomach. You don't stand up before 200 Congressmen like I did this morning without feeling that...