Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Little Denise McWhorter was only a few minutes old, but Pediatrician Spencer Snow could see that she was in desperate trouble. She had trouble breathing, and she could not swallow; she seemed to be drowning in her own saliva. In an 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...
...After that, as his muscles relaxed and his arched back straightened, Douma was clearly on the mend. Just five days after entering the hospital, and little more than three days after his first tank treatment, Douma spoke for the first time. His lockjaw had eased enough for him to swallow water and milk, and he seemed well on the way to recovery...
...presenting propoganda to an essentially hostile audience without repelling its readers, and each has found a different solution. China, by far the least ingenious, tries to bury its bitter pills in a sugary mass of art reproductions, smiling faces, and photographs of tractors, hoping that the unwary victim will swallow the whole glop at once. But, alas, the medicine is not very well concealed, and it is hard to imagine anyone falling for such a crude trick...
...there. Step studying Serbe-Creatian Bab for a moment. Swallow your mouthful of Wheat Chex and put down your spoon. For a morning's frivolous diversion, for a moment's respite in the long and wearying ordeal of examination time, for some--gosh, kids--good old-fashioned fun, we have prepared a very special treat for you. Feast your eyes! Acclimate yourselves to the exhilarating new trends that are sweeping our University: Secondary Schools (Percentage) Radcliffe Public Private Foreign 1965 (approx...
Starting Again. Defeat week after week has been a bitter pill for cocky Jack Nicklaus to swallow. He still abhors the taste. "For two years," he said, "I was expected to win every tournament I entered. If I didn't. I was a bum. I liked being top man. You've got to have the confidence that you can win; you've got to expect to win. If you don't, you have no business being there. As an amateur, I had it. I was on top. Now I've just got to work...