Word: warts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which plagued him were cancerous. He went back to Massachusetts, eked out an existence on an Army disability pension. Over the years he submitted to 50 or more operations. Every few weeks, when he saw a fellow Harvard alumnus, Surgeon Ernest M. Daland, he would point to a bleeding wart and say: "That one's degenerating a little . . . Won't stop bleeding. Give me a little Novocain and take it off." The wound would be grafted with skin from Dr. Brown's belly or leg, which soon began to look like patchwork quilts...
...moans about his "troubles," heard from his pinnacle of success, make some fans snicker with envy or disbelief. But the fact that his troubles stem largely from a walnut-hard competitive instinct, an inch-short temper and a worry wart as big as a baseball, makes them no less real...
Otto von Bismarck, and Lincoln minus his wart...