Word: ulcer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ocean beaches. Nearly as many, brandishing credit card and camera, were climbing aboard 747 jumbo jets and chartered 707s for London, Rome, Madrid or Tokyo. In Washington, the U.S. Passport Office has accumulated a backlog of 30,000 new applications. The New Orleans passport director has a bleeding ulcer...
...salty in person as she is in print, Sylvie was visited by Moshe Dayan last year while she was in a hospital recovering from an ulcer. Dayan told her that he planned to visit the dying Levi Eshkol. Was there anything she wanted him to pass on to the Premier? "Yes," said Sylvie, "tell him to get well so you won't become Premier...
...Urtain's father used to win bets by lying on the floor of the family tavern and allowing booted farmers weighing well over 200 lbs. to jump off a counter onto his chest. He died of an ulcer...
Many sketchers are freelance artists who work for between $100 and $500 a day. The pressure is severe, especially when they try to capture fast-moving uproar. Says Leo Hershfield: "I love the work, but if I had to do it all the time I'd get an ulcer...
...that all of us, in one form or another, have undertaken. We want something to show for our 75. or whatever, years when they are behind us. The Supermarket Racer option has shown its bankruptcy in the pathetic forms of frantic, dawn-to-dusk errand-running P.T.A. mothers and ulcer-ridden financier uncles. The search has brought some of us to Harvard and is beginning to turn many of us away from it. It has fostered acidheads, Weathermen, Krishna- consciousness chanters, junkies...