Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were raised for Rouse. Detroit University's Father John E. Coogan, S.J., chairman of the city's Commission on Community Relations, urged the Rouse family to "refuse to yield to violence." Rouse, who said he had always lived in white neighborhoods without trouble, confessed he had no stomach for pioneering among "people who start trouble without even seeing me and my wife. I would have held out except for the grandchildren. If they lived here and went to school, the kids would pick on them, maybe rough them up. It could hurt them, maybe ruin their lives." Improvement...
...trouble of its own. Wearing burlap bags, Delta Sigma Phi pledges had been ordered to drink mineral oil, play wheelbarrow, i.e., walk around on their hands while someone held their feet, push brushes across the floor with their noses. One boy was put to bed with a severely upset stomach. Another was hospitalized. Paul Earney, 24-year-old ex-paratrooper, spent a week in the hospital as a result of a neck injury received during the "brush race." Though the hazing was actually relatively mild, the university committee on student organizations suspended Delta Sigma Phi until at least 1958, ordered...
...often suffers from psychosomatic symptoms that range from actor's stomach to false coronary alarms. For a while he was plagued by the recurring sensation that his heart had stopped. Whenever the feeling came-and sometimes it came in the midst of public gatherings-he would rush out of the building and run around the block "to start my heart again...
...brutal and senseless mob attack, besides turning the stomach of even his warm supporters, apparently went beyond the dictator's intentions. He blustered that the opposition's "intellectual guerrillas" were to blame, and threatened to "fight back without quarter." He also moved fast to hush up news of the massacre. By quickly blocking news cables, the government successfully kept the story out of most papers abroad; only travelers' reports, days later, spelled out the ugly truth. The government's censors muzzled the local press...
...later came to mean a public place for open-air entertainment. When the Folies-Bergère first opened its doors on May 1, 1869, it specialized in jugglers, acrobats, clowns, wrestlers, singers, a woman with two heads and a "prodigious magician who swallows live snakes, rips open his stomach, and instead of vipers, pulls out Oriental pearl necklaces which he distributes to the ladies...