Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doesn't the older generation stop worrying about us "teenage rebels" and start cleaning up its own backyard? I just got through watching a Senate investigation committee questioning Dave Beck, and it really turned my stomach. This clown is making a farce out of the committee, the Government and the American public. How in the world did a man like Dave Beck ever get in the position of president of the Teamsters in the first place...
...sneered he, "This season turns my stomach with its vulgarity, and the added aroma of the nitrogenous stimulant they are plying the Yard grass with is an added guarantee." Vag stirred the gin, ice, and tonic and returned to the refrigerator...
...sweep handle. An omnivorous scholar (he has degrees in physics and agriculture, is studying philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford's New College), he plunged into the science of rowing and plowed through two coaches who disagreed with his innovations (one lasted only a day). Neither man could stomach Carnegie's new style or his strenuous training methods. But the crew could...
...Power Within You, by Claude Bristol and Harold Sherman (Prentice-Hall; 85,000 copies), is about as noisy as the mental dynamite it promises to detonate-that something which will "release you from chronic nervous tensions, chase the butterflies out of your stomach . . . and enable you to face things you've been running away from, for years!" The authors rattle on like pneumatic drills and 200 pages later bore through to the autosuggestive heart of the matter: "Your main, over-all theme in life, of course, is: 'I am going to succeed in everything I undertake...
...Tony Yates dies at last, after guzzling lukewarm champagne from the bottle, but not before he has shown himself tougher even than a U.S. visitor who thoughtfully retired to the more civilized climate of Texas. U.S. readers will appreciate Author Ronan's narrative gusto, his authentic, sometimes stomach-turning local color, and the chance to compare the U.S. and down-under forms of the western. Some differences spring to mind at once: Australian cowboys are called stockmen; they use 21-ft. whips rather than lariats; the noble redman of the plains is an ignoble blackfellow, i.e., aborigine; most important...