Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emotional symptoms that developed in this group were either severely neurotic or borderline psychotic; 15 became so anxious and irritable that their usefulness to the Air Force was impaired; and eight were depressed-two of them so severely that they attempted suicide. There were some signs of accident proneness, stomach upsets and hypochondria. All but one of the 17 men showed reduced efficiency; eight took to drinking heavily. Others became insubordinate, and six went over the hill. Ultimately three were court-martialed, and no fewer than eight were let out on administrative discharges. One man, shotgunned into marriage...
Eating for Two. Group B contained a higher proportion of sensitive souls who got into the spirit of things so completely with the little woman that eight of the 14 had stomach upsets suggesting "morning sickness." Some lost their appetites, but several began "eating for two" (one pilot had to be grounded because he gained 50-pounds). Alternating diarrhea and constipation were common. So were dizziness and headaches. Some ulcer "symptoms" seemed just like the real thing...
...with jabs at bureaucratese ("It's going to take front-office to front-office noodling to get this concretized"), and spurts of sly wit ("Since it was only 8 a.m., it was too early to have a drink, so we were forced to eat on an empty stomach"). After a few more slapsticky twists of the plot, John Henry and Fairweather's friends triumph over Senator Ransom's "Neanderthal bloc," and Fort Knox seems well on its way to becoming the biggest compost heap in the world...
...Aspirin is a severe stomach irritant in some patients, especially those who already have ulcers of the stomach or duodenum, two researchers in Scotland reported in the British Medical Journal. Ulcers or no, aspirin was found partly responsible for a high proportion of cases of vomiting blood...
...scarcely had a moment's idleness. They took trips to the U.N., attended the experimental theater at nearby Vassar College, spent the evenings reading aloud from Lord Dunsany, Thornton Wilder and Edna St. Vincent Millay. One man's blood pressure dropped 30 points; one woman's stomach disorder disappeared...