Word: swallower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schistosomiasis and filariasis. Hookworm, whipworm and Schistosoma mansoni began to appear in northern cities only in 1950; years ahead of them were the amoeba (a cause of chronic dysentery) and pinworm. Estimated schistosomiasis cases in New York City, 70,000; in Chicago, 2,200. ¶When a small boy swallowed a nail which lodged in the jejunum (second part of the small bowel), Atlanta's Dr. Murdock Equen made him swallow a tiny but powerful Alnico permanent magnet attached to a string. When the magnet grabbed the nail, Dr. Equen pulled the string and slowly worked the nail...
...Secretary Alexander Zinchuk of the Soviet embassy made a jovial pitch for a U.S.-Russian bridge across the Bering Strait so man could ride by road and rail from Hyattsville to the Kremlin. Back home in the U.S.S.R. Nikita Khrushchev feted Premier Guy Mollet of France as the "flying swallow of peace." Along with the smiles, the Communists offered what appeared to the world's unwise to be a substantial concession: the demobilization of 1,200,000 fighting men (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...this spring. He swears he will never come back. As Cervantes said, "Don't look for any birds this year in last year's nest." He's nobody's bird in the hand. He takes his freedom seriously, and doesn't mind getting a little drunk. "One swallow doesn't make a Spring," he remarked last night in Cronin's. "I'm so stoned I feel like two birds...
...stop before you reach the grounds"). Poor Chick is a loser even in small things. When he chides a waiter with "Look, I distinctly asked for a demitasse. You've given me a large cup," he is coldly instructed: "Just drink a little." Finally, here is Chick Swallow, balding and growing a pot, writing: "The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds-they mature slowly." And Nickie, dreamer of superior dreams, goes his melancholy way from a failure as a rookie policeman to driver for the Tidy Didy diaper service...
...naturally wonders just how long the boom is going to last. Is theatre activity at Harvard just beginning a long and significant golden age, or have students merely spouted Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams this year out of the same faddish enthusiasm that once led them to swallow goldfish...