Word: ulcer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, Governor Warren got news that sent him rushing back to California by plane, leaving his family to follow by train. Burly, rock-jawed Lieut. Governor Goodwin Knight, 52, who would become governor if Warren is elected* had been suddenly hospitalized, was "seriously ill" with a perforated ulcer. A good-natured, back-slapping politico, Knight is averse to making any decisions in Warren's absence, even when he is well. The Governor thought he had better get back to his state...
Said beaver-toothed Joe DiMaggio, with a grin: "Seems like it's the first time I've ever been ready for an opening game." No gimpy shoulder, no ulcer complaints, no bad heel troubled him this year: he felt good. If DiMag was ready, so were the New York Yankees. They were co-favorites-along with the Boston Red Sox-to win the American League pennant...
Student actors are rapidly approaching the ulcer stage, as both College dramatic groups hastily prepare for the opening dates of their spring presentations...
...There was a new clue to a mystery that has puzzled ulcer specialists-why do four times as many men as women have ulcers? Examining the stomach of a 21-year-old Negro girl through a surgical hole in the stomach wall (made for feeding the patient after she had accidentally swallowed some lye), Drs. Russell J. Crider and Shepard M. Walker of Washington University found that the girl's stomach was quieter and secreted less gastric juice when she was angry or upset than when she was in normally good spirits. This is just the reverse...
...Writer: ". . . An ulcer with a pencil. . . . The weight of [his] head causes his buggy-whip backbone to bend forward, giving the impression that the writer is concealing a boomerang in the back of his coat...