Word: appendixes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President Dan Quayle returned to Indiana University Medical Center today with appendicitis. The 47-year-old Quayle was planning to announce his decision on whether to run for President in '96 this week. He is expected to be hospitalized for at least seven days, during which his severely enlarged appendix will be removed. Quayle was quoted as saying he was eager to get rid of the organ: "I don't need it anyway." A Quayle spokeswoman said doctors discovered the appendix problem during follow-up treatments for Quayle's clots, or pulmonary embolisms. Dr. Bruce A. Perler, an associate professor...
...Cole reported that he pitched an egg 350 feet to Heller, who caught it without cracking the shell. That figure smashed the existing record and was forwarded to the Guinness Book, which published it in the appendix to its 1980 edition. The two appeared in three subsequent editions of the world record book...
...unlikely that America's saltiest president had much to do with Radcliffe College. But today, a week before University of Minnesota professor Barbara J. Nelson assumes the newly-created post of second-in-command and presidential stand-in at Harvard's appendix, it's worth remembering Johnson's words...
...Bill Clinton's attorney will soon argue in his effort to defer Paula Jones' sexual- harassment lawsuit until the President leaves office. The drift of lawyer Robert Bennett's thinking has been known for some time, but sources familiar with the latest version of his brief, and the impressive appendix of historical writings that supports it, have provided TIME with the details of Bennett's argument. The key points, which highlight the inextricable connection of political and legal considerations, are these...
...January 1943, says Sudoplatov, the Soviets received a full report on the secret experiment conducted the month before by Fermi in Chicago, in which a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was produced for the first time. But in a memo dated July 3, 1943, and reprinted in an appendix to the book, physicist Igor Kurchatov says he thinks the Americans might conduct such a successful experiment "in the near future"; he apparently did not know they had done it six months earlier. And Kurchatov was almost the last person from which that knowledge would have been kept: he headed...