j-archive-3738-D-2000-11-29

MEDICAL TERMS

200

'Anatomically, dorsal is the opposite of ventral & this is the opposite of anterior'

Posterior

400

'Women once dreaded puerperal fever, a common result of unsterile practices during this'

Childbirth

600

'Alliterative name for abdominoplasty'

Tummy tuck

800

'Kaposi's is one type of the tumors known as these'

Sarcoma

1000

'Alliterative name for a sprain of the metatarsophalangeal joint caused by playing on artificial grass'

Turf toe

ACCUSTOMED TO PUBLIC SPEAKING

200

'Truman, referring to this man, said, "I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But a prisoner of the Politburo"'

Joseph Stalin

400

'His "Greatest One Liners" said, "I've been in love with the same woman for 41 years. If my wife finds out she'll kill me"'

Henny Youngman

600

'In a speech in Kulmbach, Germany in 1928 he said, "Struggle is the father of all things"'

Adolf Hitler

800

'"The unexamined life is not worth living", said this Greek who took his own life'

Socrates

1000

'He told the panel at Worms, "Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise"'

Martin Luther

SINGERS' AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

200

'"And the Beat Goes On"'

Sonny Bono

400

'"Rhinestone Cowboy"'

Glenn Campbell

600

'1999's "To Hell and Back"'

Meat Loaf

800

'"I Used to be an Animal, but I'm All Right Now"'

Eric Burdon (who was in The Animals)

1000

'"Dreamgirl and Supreme Faith"'

Mary Wilson

"B"-'52s

200

'On June 18, 1952 this film star gave birth to daughter Isabella in Rome'

Ingrid Bergman

400

'This West Virginian won election to the House in 1952, beginning nearly 5 decades in Congress'

Robert Byrd

600

'In 1952 he overthrew president Carlos Prio Socarras to seize power in Cuba'

Fulgencio Batista

800

'Opposing Ben-Gurion, this future Israeli PM led a protest against accepting German reparations'

Menachem Begin

1000

'This historian, elected for life to the National Institute of Arts & Letters in '52, published a vast new book in 2000'

Jacques Barzon

ROAM

200

'In Georgia you can hike the Appalachian National Scenic one, or see history on the Antebellum one'

Trail

400

'You can enter the "Big Pit" & tour a real coal mine at Blaenavon in this U.K. country'

Wales

600

'Go due west from Sao Paulo & you'll next make your guay into this country'

Paraguay

800

'The mosque seen here is in this fabled city of Mali, once a center of trade & Islamic learning'

Timbuktu

1000

'Roam to this former SSR on the Gulf of Finland & you'll hear a language closely related to Finnish'

Estonia