Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Romagna blacksmith and had come up the hard way, going to jail for his political activities, suffering poverty in Switzerland. They knew little of his real character-e.g., that he could be bullied by anyone who took the trouble. They knew still less of his chronic ailments (syphilis, stomach ulcers) and his antipathy to taking baths, changing his shirt, or shaving...
...During pregnancy, a Type 0 woman is more likely to develop toxemia. ¶ The danger of lung cancer seems unrelated to the ABO groupings, but one study suggested that Rh-negative people are slightly less subject to this fast-increasing disease than others. ¶ Cancer of the stomach is significantly commoner among Type A subjects, but no such relationship has been found in cancers elsewhere...
...everything they are not: tall, broad-shouldered, very strong, very brave, attractive to the girls . . . Nothing new here: boys and youths have been identifying themselves with the Hero for thousands of years . . . But we might see to it that the Hero is not so often kicking people in the stomach and then smashing their faces into red pulp . . . It will be as well if the citizens of tomorrow do not take it for granted that people they dislike should be beaten, pounded, minced. The red-pulp view of life should be discouraged...
Modern Minotaur. In Monsieur Folantin, Huysmans does much the same kind of thing for a cantankerous old bachelor with stomach trouble whose only quest in life is a good place to eat. Huysmans adds the pepper of cosmic malice and by the time he finishes tightening the belt of loneliness and despair around M. Folantin's spiritual midriff, ashes seem the principal diet of mankind...
What does matter is the anxiety it produces." One doctor's prescription for those whose inability to sleep is due to an empty stomach: "A plate of good thick porridge." Concerned because 10% of Britain's National Health Service prescriptions nowadays are for barbiturates, Professor Derrick Melville Dunlop of Edinburgh complained that "the average city dweller wants to be able to turn sleep on and off like a tap." He advocated abandoning bromides entirely because they are useless for insomnia, and urged the prescribing of barbiturates only sparingly and for short times-while the patient is being taught...