Word: ulcer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hundreds of boats sounded a salute, and dock cranes dipped in tribute as Sir Francis Chichester, waylaid the past month by a duodenal ulcer, at last sailed Gipsy Moth IV up the Thames to the Royal Naval College at Greenwich, where he was formally knighted by Queen Elizabeth with Sir Francis Drake's sword. Later, the solo circumnavigator rode a white Rolls-Royce convertible through London's financial district to the cheers of 250,000 fellow Britons. "You personify the spirit of initiative, adventure and determination," London's Lord Mayor told Chichester at the official city reception...
Compulsive Kook. Offstage, the Smothers Brothers are like the two halves of a split personality. Dick is the stable, soft-spoken father of three who would like to retire and tinker with his fleet of seven cars. Tom is a walking jangle of exposed nerve ends. He has an ulcer and has divorced his wife. He arrives at the studio on a motorcycle toting a kiddie's lunch box filled with avocado sandwiches, which he munches during rehearsals to placate his ulcer. He is a compulsive kook, strolls into a nightclub and begins waiting on tables, tools around town...
...Norden in 1923 and in 1939 under Navy commission lifted off the drawing board and into production the compact (12-in. by 19-in.), though enormously complex, bombsight that in the final phase used only two settings, gave U.S. bombardiers their much-touted "pickle-barrel" accuracy; from a duodenal ulcer; in Wareham, Mass...
...more than seven months alone at sea, but the elements had obviously taken their toll. Less than a week after his triumphant arrival home, Britain's Circumnavigator Sir Francis Chichester, 65, was hurried to Plymouth's Royal Naval Hospital with a hemorrhage of an unsuspected duodenal ulcer. With Sir Francis berthed for as long as a month, this week's two superceremonies-his formal knighting by the Queen with Sir Francis Drake's sword, and his pandemonious reception by the City of London-have been postponed until he is shipshape again...
...reflected from the bladder wall. Using local and spinal anesthesia, the Cook County doctors have been able to see: the inflamed areas in cystitis; a tumor; an obstructed bladder neck; the encroachment of an enlarged prostate gland. Most important, they can pinpoint the exact location of a tumor or ulcer...