Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already signed to play Henry VIII in a Broadway production of Maxwell Anderson's Anne of the Thousand Days. He flung his skinny frame into the heavily padded king's role so frantically that once during rehearsals he had to be hospitalized. An X ray showed his stomach clenched into fist-size; Harrison claims the hospital is still displaying the plates as an example of what nervous tension...
...made them miserably sick. In The Jungle, Muckraker Upton Sinclair rubbed the nation's nose in the filth of Chicago packing plants. On June 30, 1906, Teddy Roosevelt rode to the Capitol and ceremoniously signed the first U.S. Food and Drugs Act, to protect the people's stomach from willful or careless poisoning...
Applied research also turns up rich and diversified rewards. Chrysler Corp.'s research in hydraulic pumps for cars resulted in a hospital pump that delivers liquefied natural food directly to a post-operative patient's stomach, eliminating the need for intravenous feeding in many cases. General Motors' development of a sensitive device to test automotive parts yielded an electronic "stethoscope" for doctors...
Science Nonfiction. How the body was found, what probably caused death, what undigested food still reposed in its stomach after two millenniums, how the food had been cooked and what it tasted like, were all entertainingly explained last week on CBS's Adventure (Sun. 4:30 p.m., E.D.T.), one of TV's most consistently fascinating grown-up-type shows. In its three years of existence, Adventure has proved itself the busiest science nonfiction show of them all by expertly transporting its viewers from the outer reaches of the universe to the inside of a chromosome. In the process...
...interview at the same moment that Eva Marie is breaking her engagement and Hope is walking off, not only with the girl, but with the boy and dog as well. Bob breezes amiably through this pastiche, firing off salvos of one-line jokes, mugging happily, and milking his nervous stomach and faint heart for every sight gag possible. Eva Marie Saint is mostly limited to wearing high-fashion clothes and looking elegant, but, in the drunk scene, she exhibits a comedy talent of her own-especially in a Groucho-like gallop that definitely hits the Marx...