Word: bellyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Ah so. You yellow belly?"
In the annual riot of trading and boozing at the fur company store on Mackinac Island on a June afternoon in 1822, a gun went off accidentally and blasted a gaping hole in the belly of Alexis St. Martin, ig, a French Canadian voyageur. For the rest of his days...
* Most of them in the tradition of Union soldiers, who dubbed it the Virginia or Tennessee quickstep, depending on where they were campaigning. Currently popular: turista in most of Latin America; "Aztec two-step" or "Montezuma's revenge" in Mexico; "Turkey trot" and "Gyppy tummy" in the Middle East...
Entrusted with the ashes of his master, a Japanese diplomat who died in Washington, Ito was on his way home. Then a trio from the wagon train killed his traveling companion and stole the sacred urn, sure that the ashes were really Oriental jewels. After chasing the culprits into the...
But the Soviet radio stopped short of attacking the Shah, a backhanded tribute to his popularity. A brooding, impulsive, often irritable man, the Shah at 39 is the one unifying force in the nation. Some of his supporters wish he were more like his father, the decisive, brusque Reza Shah...