Word: ulcerating
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...looked serious to everyone except Finance Minister René Mayer, in whose department it started, and who had other things to worry about. When the strikers presented their demands to Mayer, he did nothing at all about it. In fact, he left for his Normandy home to nurse his ulcer...
Next day, Governor Warren got news that sent him rushing back to California by plane, leaving his family to follow by train. Burly, rock-jawed Lieut. Governor Goodwin Knight, 52, who would become governor if Warren is elected* had been suddenly hospitalized, was "seriously ill" with a perforated ulcer. A good-natured, back-slapping politico, Knight is averse to making any decisions in Warren's absence, even when he is well. The Governor thought he had better get back to his state...
...coldly comforting thought: Drs. Moschowitz and Roudin found only two cases of the same person with both hyperthyroidism and cardiospasm, only one with both high blood pressure and cardiospasm, none of cardiospasm plus colonic disorders, none of stomach ulcer plus nonspecific ulcerative colitis...
...Instead of simply festering, as in Brideshead, like an old, old staphylococcus, my dear, in a duodenal ulcer...
Said beaver-toothed Joe DiMaggio, with a grin: "Seems like it's the first time I've ever been ready for an opening game." No gimpy shoulder, no ulcer complaints, no bad heel troubled him this year: he felt good. If DiMag was ready, so were the New York Yankees. They were co-favorites-along with the Boston Red Sox-to win the American League pennant...