Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next day he was worse. Weak and miserable, with stomach cramps and nausea, he was confined to his old-fashioned brass-knobbed bed in the third-floor corner chamber of the palace, while his physicians checked him meticulously to try to find out what was wrong. They seemed to find nothing organically amiss, attributed his illness basically to age and overwork. At week's end, the Pope seemed improved. Though still very weak, he was taking more food, it was announced, was able to hold hour-long conferences with top Vatican officials...
...Foot. This old-school element had little stomach for 42-year-old Milovan Djilas' confident heresies, and it watched with uneasiness his growing support among younger Communists. The old Communists did not like his going to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II or his friendship with such British Socialists as Nye Bevan, Morgan Phillips and Clement Attiee. When Djilas' wordy barbs in Borba got to the old-school Communists, they demanded a showdown, and Tito gave the order...
Invitation. In Memphis, the Commercial Appeal carried this classified ad: "Café must be sacrificed . . . Owner has ulcerated stomach. Must sell at once . . ." Helpmeet. In Chicago, when his estranged wife charged him with desertion and sued for separate maintenance, George Layton, 71, told the court that she had plenty of money, got a court order requiring her to pay him $25 a week...
...bundle, each fiber transmits a small part of it to the other end, where it shows as a pattern of bright dots, one from each fiber. The bundle can be bent into sharp curves, but the image follows it faithfully without losing its sharpness. If poked into a human stomach, it could give an insect-eye view of anything there...
...child may get stomach cramps before a school examination. A housewife develops rheumatoid arthritis worrying over her relationship with her husband. A soldier cracks under the strain of waiting for battle. All these are stress diseases. So, in various cases, are asthma, duodenal ulcers, hypertension, some heart diseases and ulcerative colitis. "Some," says Surgeon Ogilvie, "would add diabetes in younger many men and women have been freed from the fetters of anxiety and self-absorption...