Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Because of Orley Lindgren, kid. Mostly, that is. The punk is so lousy he crawls all over the picture like a bedbug. It's enough to turn your stomach. I've seen some repulsive kids in my time, but that kid cops first place in my book...
...baby on his shoulders. The baby was trying to eat an ice-cream sandwich. The red balloon moved down the hill over the balloon man. Two runners moved up the steep hill. Both looked ready to quit. The first one grimaced showing all his teeth, and holding his stomach. The checks of the second billowed and flattened as he breathed. His hands were fists, his feet landed heavily on the asphalt. Across the road, a little girl let go of her balloon and it soared up quickly. "Look," one of the bicycle boys said, "there goes a flying saucer...
...gone only a hundred yards or so when [my horse] Kendall (for a reason which will never be known) reared and whirled, his front feet pawing the steep slope ... I ended on a narrow ledge lying on my stomach, uninjured. I started to rise. I glanced up. I looked into the face of an avalanche. Kendall had slipped, and fallen, too ... rolling down over the same thirty precipitous yards I had traversed . . . Sixteen hundred pounds of solid horseflesh rolled me flat. I could hear my own bones break in a sickening crescendo ... I lay paralyzed with pain-twenty-three...
...ever looked less like a master criminal than Hugo Hedin. He was a tall, stooped man with a mournful, bloodhound face and a shambling walk. He wore nondescript clothes, and had no friends. He talked hesitantly, with a Swedish accent. His lungs were weak and so was his stomach; he had a hypochondriac's love of pills. He spent a great deal of time in honest toil-he was a carpenter, a bricklayer, a plasterer, an upholsterer and a camera mechanic. He was also very poor...
EVERY year, a select group of American newspapers resurrects its fight against vivisection. These newspapers drag out their cuts of the writhing dog with the tube attached to its stomach, and of the eat with its head attached to nothing at all. Most of these charges have been successfully perforated by alert scientists, but we should not sell the newspapers short. For in fighting for vivisection, the scientists are smokescreening something far more dangerous. It is the torturing of America's children...