Word: ulcerated
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...marriages, wakes, strawberry festivals, ribbon-cutting. Today a mayor has to be an administrator and planner." A shipping clerk's son, Lee grew up in New Haven's Irish 17th Ward, after high school cut his political teeth covering city hall for the Journal-Courier. A peptic ulcer gave him an Army medical discharge in World War II; he went to Yale not as a student but as publicity director in 1943, four times handily won election as alderman from his home ward before he took over city hall...
Occupational Ulcer...
...producer-director of the Ernie Ford show, I thoroughly enjoyed the fine article [May 27] you did on Mr. Ford. I must take exception, however, to one statement: you say "the only one who had an ulcer on the Ford show was the producer, and he brought that over from the Gobel show." I have never had the pleasure of working with two finer men than both George Gobel and Ernie Ford, and I like to feel that my ulcer is an occupational disease not derived from either show...
...Peptic Ulcers. Smokers' death rate was 116% higher for duodenal ulcers. When they got to the comparison for stomach-ulcer deaths, Hammond and Horn's graph bar ran off the chart; there was not a single such death among the nonsmokers, but there were 46 among cigarette smokers (five among other smokers...
...Mohr cited the case history of a nine-year-old boy who complained of bellyaches after meals. His mother said that his pains were similar to hers-and she had a duodenal ulcer. Dr. Mohr found that the woman had not wanted the child; motherhood had made her give up a promising art career. He decided that her pains and her child's were both reactions to frustration and stress...