Word: appendix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cleveland last week, gathering for its eleventh convention and looking a little white around the lips, the C.I.O. got ready to perform a major operation on itself. The trouble was an old and chronic one - its chronically inflamed Communist appendix...
...readers of the Congressional Record Appendix must feel almost as bewildered as Alice these days. The Appendix has always been good to chuckle over with its collection of oddments from rural newspapers, speeches delivered before ophthalmologists' conventions, and poems written by constituents from the Congressmen's home districts. But lately the contributions have been weighted rather heavily toward the subject of the "welfare state...
Nothing went right for the varsity. Dave Abbott suffered an appendix attack right on the field of play; Lew Soule, recovering from separated shoulders, had his glasses broken; Hans Estin had a twisted ankle...
...people have psychological weak spots and most surgical patients are "apprehensive, anxious people, reacting emotionally rather than rationally." They fear death (many make their wills just before an operation), pain, disfigurement, loss of function. The fears are as much a part of the patient as his gallstones or diseased appendix...
...proved himself the most versatile of all the men around Perón. He had hardly settled down at home before he had a chance to add a couple of cubits to his considerable stature as a surgeon. Amid blaring Peronista publicity, he took out the President's appendix (TIME, March 15). From surgery he moved to culture, soon became the high priest and top philosopher of Peronism...