Word: midriff
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Last week he was paralyzed. Numbness crept up his legs, to his midriff. Nonetheless he was desperately at work to recheck and recheck figures which indicated that Light's exact speed was very close to 186,285 miles per second. He dictated a brief introduction to the scientific report of the experiment. Not before that was finished did Albert Abraham Michelson's guard go down and Death's numbness creep into his heart...
...France's midriff is the bleak Massif Central, mountain chain where rise little streams which become rivers that water most of Southwestern France. Last week four days' rain filled the porous mountainsides like a sponge, precipitated a flood which covered a district large as Pennsylvania, killed more than 300 people, did $24,000,000 worth of damage...
...Tower, smart apartment hotel. He believed that the inflation of real estate values necessarily brought about by skyscrapers and the subsequent deflation of vast areas of "unimproved" ground, made for economic instability. Of tall architecture he said: "Most of our skyscrapers . . . [are] elongated packing boxes, the architecture of whose midriff sections had best be passed over in haste. Many make me think of plum puddings whose raisins have settled on one or two sides. Certainly no one can say that recessing back a skyscraper makes for beauty." Never an official, never pedantic, Architect Hastings believed that the creator...
...Marines, he was besieged some years ago in a little Nicaraguan town, by a native general with over 2,000 troops. Smedley D. Butler, then a major, went out to parley with the besieging Commander, walked menacingly up to him, seized his long mustachios, poked a pistol into his midriff, and then twisted the Nicaraguan's whiskers until he howled out orders to raise the siege and let Major Butler and his marines...
Russia is playing both ends against the middle-and Sun is "bystanding" in the middle. He can strengthen the midriff of Chang and Wu or deliver there something like a solar plexus punch. During the week he listened, seemingly impassive, to bids and bribes from all quarters...