Word: stomaching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indianapolis children's zoo contains a Japanese garden, with pagoda, pool and bridge, in which a collection of Japanese wildlife run free; a miniature train tours the grounds behind a replica of an 1863 locomotive; a walk-in whale has an aquarium in his stomach; there is an underwater glass panel for viewing submarine life and an underground panel to watch burrowing animals at work. An "elephant-rama" houses a baby elephant named Tumthong, bought with the nickels and dimes of 100,000 Indianapolis and Marion County schoolchildren. And of course there is a chicken hatchery-a staple...
...paintings declined, Gauguin saw his withdrawal in another light: he had "buried his talent among the savages; no more will be heard of me; for many, it will appear to be a crime." Despondent, he climbed the slope of a mountain, swallowed arsenic and waited to die. But his stomach failed him: he merely became ill and had to climb down again, "condemned to live...
...most entertaining section contains capsule descriptions of the candidates, and reveals the following facts: Yale men (Shriver, Scranton, Morton) outnumber the Harvard men (Lodge, R.F. Kennedy); three vice-presidential hopefuls (Humphrey, Hatfield, McCarthy) are former college professors; Goldwater's wife's maiden name was Johnson; Lodge has stomach ulcers...
...Stomach Crawlers. Astruc came back with fellow members of the Quercy Speleological Club of Cahors. They all crawled headfirst into the hole, soon found themselves in a passageway no more than 20 in. high. Exhaling to squeeze between rocks, rubbing their noses in the wet clay, they inched along. Then one of them saw carvings on the ceiling...
Missing Messenger. Pernicious anemia has remained a mysterious disease despite the finding that it can be controlled (though not cured), first by liver extracts and now by vitamin B12. Cornell University's Dr. Graham Jeffries began by studying the inflammation of the stomach lining that precedes pernicious anemia. This robs the patient of a biochemical messenger which normally conveys B12 through the digestive system to the body. In patients' blood, Dr. Jeffries reported, he has found antibody of a type that attacks the stomach-lining cells...