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Word: stomach (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think Mr. Eisenhower has ever caught a blowfish? If you tickle its stomach, it swells hugely. McCarthy has very nearly reached the popping point. What a shame that our President missed his chance to administer the pin. The Senator needs it, and so does the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 22, 1954 | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

Ever since the first head of Harvard College, Samuel Eaton, was thrown out for serving the students "insipid porridge," College presidents have been painfully aware that although man does not live by bread alone, erudition comes easier on a happily full stomach...

Author: By Robert L. Saxe, | Title: Harvard Food: Porridge, Plum Cake, Ptomaine | 3/19/1954 | See Source »

Unlike the Bathyscaphe explorer who faces a more insidious danger. For on getting together, the Atlantic and Atlantis, can deliver a stomach torturing roll designed to reduce even the hardiest scientist to a pale, seasick green. In the cramped quarters of the best, the dining table is set on a pivot to allow for a roll that often nears fifty degrees...

Author: By Michel O. Finkelstein, | Title: Gadgets Aid Woods Hole Scientists In Mapping World's Ocean Currents | 3/12/1954 | See Source »

...irrational hostilities." He was still holding on to the telephone when cops smashed in and mistook a vial of paraldehyde (sometimes used to unpickle the living) for a vial of formaldehyde (often used to pickle the dead). After being hauled off to a first-aid hospital where his stomach was pumped out, Oscar explained: "I was just trying to be dramatic." Said June: "He was just kidding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 8, 1954 | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

Something had been bothering Vag all day. What with the steady diet of fish in the dining hall, there was something on his mind, and little on his stomach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIME to Celebrate Feb 22, No Paper Published Monday | 2/20/1954 | See Source »

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