Word: hernia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Reader Helscher stand corrected. Humphrey was 4-F (for double hernia); he was rejected for enlistment in the Navy in 1944, by Selective Service...
...James Smith, who lives meanly in a $16-a-month room, could stand some medical attention himself: his hernia bothers him a good deal, but he cannot afford a doctor ("Everything is so dear"). Then how can he afford a charity? "Oh," he explained, "that's different. I'm an old bachelor and I don't have any family, so why shouldn't I help the poor? . . . Every night I put aside whatever change I have in my pockets and save it up and when Christmas comes I take it and give it to charity...
Outside, Rome's air was rife with the aroma of decaying garbage and dead fish. Luigi Longo decided that the party could dispense with his services for a few weeks; he went to a hospital for a hernia operation...
John Doe had a hernia 15 years ago-and he still talks about his operation. It was certainly something to remember. There was that terrible three weeks in the hospital: the retching, agonizing hangover when he came out of the ether, the two weeks flat on his back (not eating, not sleeping) and his belly a constant, burning torment. Months after he was back at work, he felt something like a big hole where the scalpel had slit his muscles; and for years he looked with awed distaste at the lumpy, four-inch scar on his abdomen...
...hour after surgery (for hernia) Winston Churchill demanded, and got, a whiskey-&-soda and a cigar. Two days later wife Clementine reported he was "very chirpy. . . . In fact, the great trouble is to keep him . . . from being too chirpy...