Word: ulcer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letters from hard-shell Baptists who have heard evil rumors of his dissolute ways. Only recently, he decided to give up drinking altogether-not only because of the furor but also to please his stern-principled parents. It was just as well, for he only recently brought a peptic ulcer under control. To keep it so, he quaffs quarts of milk and Coca-Cola, consumes cups of bouillon at midmorning and midafternoon, takes a couple of Pro-Banthine pills daily...
...worker consulted Dr. Manrico Troncelliti of Pennsylvania's Sacred Heart Hospital in Norristown, he seemed a veritable caricature of obesity. He was 5 ft. 2 in. tall and weighed 376 lbs. He could hardly walk a city block and not tie his own shoelaces. He had a bleeding ulcer on his leg that refused to heal-a common problem of the grossly overweight...
...patient lost 96 lbs. in little more than a year, and his leg ulcer healed. Then he developed a hernia at the operation scar, so the surgeons went in again. Since his weight loss had been only moderate, they cut out a foot of jejunum. That did it. The clerical worker is now down to a merely rotund 165 lbs.; he is back at his office desk, able to tie his shoelaces, and happy as never before...
...vital link between Johnson and the world was Bill Moyers, 31, the ulcer-plagued, brilliant man Friday whom Lyndon regards almost as a son. It was Moyers who was to be informed first if anything went wrong. And it was he who would have had to decide whether the President's condition warranted the transfer of power to the Vice President. By noon, as it turned out, Moyers announced: "I believe that the President is able to make the decisions that might be necessary...
...Bleeding Ulcer. The Macedonian campaign, which started as a seemingly minor ulcer, ultimately bled Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany to death. But, speculates Author Palmer, "if the breakthrough was possible in 1918, would not a determined offensive earlier in the war have had the same result?" And if it had, how many fewer Allied and German soldiers would lie buried beneath the red poppies of Flanders' fields...