Word: throat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when King Prajadhipok of Siam came to the U.S. for treatment of his cataract, Edgar Burchell was an expert in eye, ear, nose & throat bacteriology and pathology. It was he who determined that the little king's eye was free from dangerous bacteria and could safely be operated...
...student the idea. Then it supplies the missing parts, so that the G.I. can learn in turn to sing lead, tenor and bass. By the time he is through the cycle, the G.I. has become an all-round barbershop expert, able to sound off, at the clearing of a throat, with any part of Old Man River or In the Evening by the Moonlight...
...behind the lines. Men who had toiled at forced labor under the Japanese now worked at handsome pay for Philippine pesos pegged at prewar value (50? in U.S. currency). Churches opened again, for worship and as hospitals for the wounded Americans. There was a new and thriving trade in throat-searing Philip pine "whiskey" at ten U.S. dollars a quart. And though most Filipino girls are devout and moral Catholics, the "crook girls" inevitably followed the troops, to ply their trade in slatternly shacks...
...medical corpsman, who in peacetime had been an automobile mechanic in College Place, Wash., went to work on the rifleman's throat. He knew, at second hand, the delicate operation that had to be done; his Army instructors had lectured on it, months before-a tracheotomy (incision into the windpipe) to provide an air entrance through the neck. (Common peacetime use: to save children strangling from diphtheria.) Even under the best conditions, the operation is risky; surgical books say that a good light is essential, that the patient's neck must be held very steady to avoid cutting...
...complained: "I'm sick and I know it." Next day he stayed home. For the past five weeks, with an occasional bedside visit from Franklin Roosevelt, good, grey Cordell Hull has lain abed in the Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Md., under observation and treatment for a throat ailment and exhaustion. This week, reluctantly and on his doctor's advice, Cordell Hull resigned as Secretary of State...