Word: ulcer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Frank Sinatra of Latin Music" who made his singing debut on Puerto Rican radio at the age of 13, sang during the '40s with the band of Xavier Cugat, then sold more than 12 million recordings of softly rendered, romantic love songs; of complications following a bleeding ulcer; in Manhattan...
...Ulcers. These fears have been reinforced by the chilling tale of Poet Yuri Galanskov, 33, who died on a prison operating table last month. According to accounts that recently reached the West, Galanskov, who suffered from bleeding ulcers, was not allowed to receive medical care after his imprisonment in 1967 for having edited an underground literary magazine. Instead, he was fed prison fare of salt fish and black bread, and was forced to work in a camp factory. When Galanskov developed a perforated ulcer, he was operated on by another inmate, a former army doctor who was not a qualified...
...optimism, I wouldn't have an ulcer right now, he said. "I think we'll give them a workout, but Harvard has all the horses to beat anybody...
...youth whose grandfather drowned has developed an ulcer...
...strong qualities made him unacceptable to the Soviets who "know from experience what a tough Finn is like, and didn't want him," as a State Department official put it last week. The Soviets first tried unsuccessfully to persuade U Thant, who is suffering from a bleeding ulcer, to stay on. Then they plumped for Waldheim, who is better known for his technical skill and correctness as a diplomat than for his daring...