Word: gastrically
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...least two score), Saudi Arabia's King Saud, 59, descended from a chartered TWA jet at Boston's Logan International Airport and turned himself in to the nearby Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Immediate prospect for Saud: six weeks of treatment for what was reported to be a gastric ulcer...
...days. When the Government invoked the Taft-Hartley Act to stop the strike for a cooling-off period, Goldberg fought the case to the Supreme Court-where he lost, even though the Justices concurred in public praise of his legal performance. The strike left Goldberg with a suspected gastric ulcer (an exploratory operation found nothing) and the firm conviction that labor and management had to find some better means of resolving their differences than by striking. Says Goldberg: "The whole thing was a sorry mess. I criticized the Government then, and I criticize it now, for letting the strike...
...undertrained, far too many of the British Expeditionary Force's drafted Tommies had taken the "phony war" in France as a holiday in uniform, succumbed to the lure of strange food and strange women. General the Viscount Gort's army, reports Author Collier, suffered more from gastric ulcers, scabies and venereal disease than it did from German bullets. Even in the famed Guards regiments, few of the hastily called-up reservists had seen, much less fired, a shot in anger until their first encounter with the Germans. The ist Armored Division arrived at the Western Front with mockup...
Ikiru begins with an aging civil service employee's discovery that he has a fatal case of gastric cancer. The narrative twists through some five months, ending just after his death. The plot and characters are common place and simple. The film is an unpretentious Japanese story of a no more momentous event than the quiet death of an old man who has spent most of his life rubber-stamping documents no one cares about. Yet Ikiru is a powerful film, well worth the cost of a ticket and the time away from the books...
...pistol blast, close up, can rupture an eardrum, and similarly sudden, unexpected sounds produce widespread, potentially harmful changes in bodily activity, as the body's defensive mechanism reacts to the unknown stimulus. Blood and intracranial pressures rise, perspiration increases, muscles contract sharply, flow of saliva and gastric juices is radically reduced, and digestion ceases. Even short-term exposure to high-intensity noise-above 135 decibels-can cause a breakdown in the ear's sensitive basilar membrane...