Word: bellyful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A mysterious telephone call to a Chicago undertaker gave police directions which took them to a muddy ditch outside a cemetery in Niles Center. There, wrapped in a blanket, they found a small, naked corpse. There were eight bullet wounds in its legs, one big one in its belly beneath...
Good shots in The Battle's battle: white uniforms on the bridge flapping against a grey sky in what seems to be a mingled whine of wind and speeding turbines; the commander getting the enemy's range again & again in his finder, announcing it in a flat singsong...
That amniotic fluid might have another use gradually dawned on surgeons, when they realized that women who underwent caesarean sections seldom developed peritonitis. That was because amniotic fluid is a potent germicide. When an obstetrician opens the belly to lift out the child, the protective waters flood all the neighborhood...
He gives his patient a sip of barium sulphate in thick cream and a moment later has him rub his belly. This kneads the stomach and spreads the barium cream evenly into all the wrinkles, leaving their ridges bare and transparent to x-rays. The roentgenogram appears striped. Every deflected...
In Bedford Hills, N. Y., one blazing summer day, Emil Schoor fished a handsome little pickerel from Cross River Reservoir. When a game warden stretched his tape along its belly four hours later the fish measured n inches, just one inch under the legal limit. Stoutly Emil Schoor contended that...