Word: ulcer
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...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...
...years ago, Nazi Germany's onetime Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess has steadfastly refused to see his wife and son. It was beneath the dignity of a high official, he explained, to permit his family to see him in prison. Now 75 and suffering from a duodenal ulcer, Hess was transferred in November from Berlin's Spandau prison to a British military hospital. There, in a room with guards but no bars, Hess last week finally was reunited with his wife Use, who runs a tiny inn in the Bavarian Alps, and his son, Wolf-Rudiger...
...school, things did not go so well. He quit Palm Beach Junior College in Lake Worth after a year, dropping out with two Cs, one D and four Fs in his seven courses. "It just seemed like the 13th year in high school," Calley says now. He had an ulcer at 19. After he left college, he worked as a hotel bellhop, then a restaurant dishwasher. He became a strikebreaking switchman on the Florida East Coast railroad; soon he was promoted to freight-train conductor and earning as much as $300 a week with overtime. He once got demerits...