Word: ulcerous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rigors of travel also took their toll of his bride Nancy. Last week she entered the Bethesda Naval Medical Center to undergo treatment for an ulcer. * Including Morton Halperin and Anthony Lake, two of his aides on the National Security Council. Their phones were later bugged and both have sued Kissinger, claiming the taps were illegal...
Reality, for Bachelor Hamlisch, is hardly a flamboyant lifestyle. He attends a Conservative synagogue every Friday night, neither smokes nor drinks, and watches his diet carefully-the result of a bleeding ulcer a few years ago. His biggest indulgence is a video tape recorder attached to his television set, on which he replays cassettes of his appearances on talk shows. He even had some dental work done after deciding that one of his front teeth was not photogenic...
...ascetic ruler, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, is not known as a connoisseur of humor, especially when it is at his own expense. So a satirical article about him in Turin's La Stampa last month enraged him. "It seems," ran the mock-fan-magazine prose, "that he has an ulcer, it seems that he is a homosexual, that he sleeps on a mattress of tobacco leaves, that he has a harem of 48 wives in Switzerland." Libya immediately demanded that the article's coauthors be dismissed from La Stampa, one of Italy's most respected dailies...
Woody Allen has seen the future -and it doesn't work any better than the present. In Sleeper, having undergone an unsuccessful operation for a peptic ulcer, he is wrapped in tin foil and cryogenically preserved. Two hundred years hence he is heated 'n' served in an America that has managed to preserve only that which is ghastly in our own culture: a political leader who only appears before the public mouthing pious platitudes on TV, Rod McKuen's poetry, Walter Kean's paintings, McDonald's hamburgers and vegetables, which have carried the current...
Shortly thereafter, in 1953, O'Hara nearly died after the hemorrhage of a gastric ulcer. Brushed by mortality, then almost crushed by it when his second wife died, he stopped drinking, and as he turned 50, settled down to one of the most determined, self-conscious and prolific assaults on posterity ever attempted by an American writer. The strategy was correct-most of the great social novelists have required many long volumes to explore the intricacies of how it all works. The results, alas, were fecund-rate...