Word: ulceration
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mayor was vacationing at a secret hideaway last week, recuperating from an ulcer attack. The president of the school board was fined $115 in court for flashing his bare bottom from a car window. The city council president and five other councilmen have been indicted on charges of accepting kickbacks from carnival operators. The city faces bankruptcy and can only pay its policemen for another week...
...princess and her new companion made a series of unchaperoned holiday visits, without her two children, to the languid Caribbean isle of Mustique. Last month, on the fourth such idyl, the couple were photographed together for the first time upon arriving. On Mustique, Roddy was stricken with a bleeding ulcer and rushed to a hospital in nearby Barbados. Margaret hovered anxiously at his bedside. When Llewellyn returned home, he committed the ultimate indiscretion-in royal circles -of talking directly to newsmen about the lady he coyly calls "P.M.": "Let them all criticize. I don't mind. I would like...
...person gets an ulcer here, it's because of his diet and drinking, not worry," says Ben Barry, 48, who has lived on Majuro since 1969. "This is an alcoholic's paradise. Where else can you get Black Label for 800 and listen to good jazz while you drink...
Peaceful neighborhoods are terrorized by roving youth bands who shake down the local populace by singing to them. And perhaps the most shocking Christmas season excesses are committed by those normally civilized individuals who fanatically insist on ruining good liquor by lacing it with homebrewed, egg-based ulcer remedies as a means of putting themselves in the proper Christmas spirit. Or vice-versa...
...pharmacologist as well as physician, worked with chemists at Smith Kline & French Laboratories to find what are awkwardly called H2-receptor blockers. After testing over 700 compounds, they finally hit upon cimetidine. At present, their discovery has been approved for up to only eight-weeks' use by duodenal-ulcer patients and by victims of a few other diseases causing excessive acid secretion, like gastrinoma (tumors of the pancreas). Under the brand name Tagamet, the new drug should be available (on prescription only) by Labor Day. Cost of a four-to six-weeks' supply for the average course...