Word: heartburns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been repealed. He based his veto on two points: 1) "We cannot afford the loss of revenue involved" (an estimated $200 million), and 2) "It is unfair to single out one industry for relief at this time." But the President did soothe the theater owners' heartburn. Agreeing that the tax is "not a good one," he promised to ask Congress to repeal it "early...
...some of his novels Waugh has got around his problem by succumbing wholly either to ferocity (as in The Loved One) or heartburn (as in A Handful of Dust). More often, he has kept his anger uppermost and merely hinted at a grumpy sympathy with mankind. But in Brideshead Revisited (TIME, Jan. 7, 1946), he made his first major effort to express fully both sides of his divided self-to give poison only where poison was due, to cool boiling oil with holy water...
...Epidemic heartburn...
Then, without warning, pain and sudden death clutched Pont-Saint-Esprit. On a Saturday night three weeks ago, the town's doctors began getting calls from people complaining of heartburn, stomach cramps and fever chills. At first, they thought it was a mild epidemic of meat poisoning. But the calls kept flooding in. By Monday, 70 houses in the village had become tiny hospitals, with most of their families in bed. Then the doctors found their first clue: every one of the patients had eaten bread from the shop of Baker Roch Briand. All eight of Pont-Saint-Esprit...