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...educated in Germany, Dr. Lewisohn came to the U.S. in 1907, and within a year joined the surgical staff of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. He has been there ever since. Besides his historic work on citration, Dr. Lewisohn introduced more drastic (and proportionately more effective) operations for stomach ulcers, and pioneered in using the first crude preparations of folic-acid antagonists against cancer. Though technically retired, Dr. Lewisohn follows closely the war on cancer, still visits Mount Sinai's Cell Research Laboratory almost every...
...last days on St. Helena had little romance. Defections and deportations had riddled his last command. He was in agony, either from stomach cancer or a perforated ulcer, but his doctors were too incompetent to diagnose his case. At dawn on May 5, 1821, with his mind wandering, Napoleon said, "Who retreats?", then: "At the head of the army." They were his last words...
...surveyed the blue Pacific from his villa in the resort town of Atami last week, Japan's Premier Nbbusuke Kishi had an ache in his stomach ("Probably an off-color shrimp"), but he had joy in his heart. A year ago, Kishi's control over his faction-ridden Liberal Democratic Party was shaky and his popularity with Japan's masses at an alltime low. Last week his control over his cohorts was clear and undisputed, and his stock with the public soaring. "Today," said a Western diplomat, "Kishi is Mister Japan...
Stouthearted TV viewers have watched 1) alleged stomach acid rot a pocket handkerchiei, 2) elderly couples kissing while an announcement reassured the lovers that a special cleanser would keep their dentures pure, 3) corns the size of pumpkins pried out of plaster toes that could belong to the Colossus of Rhodes, 4) alleged liver bile dissolving a dreadful accumulation of fatty particles. Many a broadcaster is beginning to worry about such tasteless commercials...
...payroll. The Mad Cossack even bamboozled his social director out of a wardrobe, so that Hart was reduced to appearing in the dining hall dressed in the camp theater's flyblown, sweat-stained costumes, impersonating Robert E. Lee or Davy Crockett or Napoleon, telling jokes while his stomach curdled with rage and embarrassment...