Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...until you are able to do it"); 4) wide interests ("She brings in outside ideas and helps us to apply what we learn in our everyday lives"); 5) good manners ("There was something about his voice and his smile that made me feel good clear down to my stomach"); 6) fairness ("She gives you exactly what you deserve"); 7) sense of humor ("She puts some fun into each day so school does not seem so monotonous"); 8) good disposition ("I'm sure she must have a temper, as most people do, but I have never seen an example...
...cancers are harder to detect in the early stages than cancer of the stomach...
...Bombay, cancer of the mouth, esophagus and penis is commoner than in New York, but cancer of the stomach, womb, breast and skin is rarer than in either New York or London (though the overall incidence of cancer is about the same). Cancer types vary between sects: Parsee women have more than three times as much breast cancer as cancer of the mouth of the womb, but the opposite is true among Hindu women...
...Javanese and Chinese laborers in the rice fields of Sumatra, living under identical conditions and eating almost the same food, both have a high rate of liver cancer, but the Chinese have a high incidence of stomach ulcers and stomach cancer while the Javanese have virtually none...
Napoleon supposedly said that an army marched on its stomach. But in modern war, an army-and a nation at war-rides on its freight cars. In World War II, U.S. railroads hauled 142 million carloads of freight, the biggest cargo lift in history, and barely had enough cars to squeak...