Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that moment, one day last week, the governor of Arkansas had good reason to be suffering from, as he put it, a "sore stomach." Arkansas National Guardsmen were deployed around his salmon-pink executive mansion, warding off all. Other militiamen surrounded Little Rock's Central High School, ready to defend it to the death against Negro children trying to attend classes. And even as Governor Faubus defied his doctor's orders, the shock waves of his defiance of the U.S. Government crashed through the South, the nation and the world...
Back in Moscow after several strenuous days doing Tashkent, globe-trotting Eleanor Roosevelt, 72, spent an afternoon in bed with an upset stomach, dauntlessly rose in the evening for dinner at the Indian embassy...
When he died of cancer of the stomach in 1885, the old roarer left his ranch in good hands. Today, another generation of Klebergs run the Texas kingdom that has spread far beyond the adventurous boatman's dreams. The 890,000 Texas acres are supplemented by pastures in Kentucky and Pennsylvania; Santa Gertrudis cattle are raised in Cuba, Australia and Brazil. Rare new grasses are cultivated on White Horse Desert, and King Ranch thoroughbreds race on the world's finest tracks...
Flying Coattails. There was no argument that West Germany's third postwar national election was a "stomach election"; and there seemed little if any doubt that Adenauer was going to win it (whether his party as a whole would win a majority or merely a plurality was the real question). The man most determined to erase any doubt was peppery, spartan Chancellor Adenauer himself. By motorcar and by special, five-car diesel train, Konrad Adenauer was campaigning with the verve and enthusiasm of a man half his age, and the knowledge that...
...gone. She had apparently slithered under her wire-mesh roof. At week's end an unhappy posse at the Bronx Zoo was still scouting the 250-acre compound. They hoped that Penelope had not ended up in the Bronx River or the Jersey flats. Cecil just scratched his stomach and fed his ego. Where once there were two, he was now the only platypus in captivity-outside Tasmania and Australia...