Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...market, and possibly make a $25 profit, a feeder must stuff it with corn for three to nine months. But to the packer who buys it weighing 1,100 Ibs. the steer represents only 660 Ibs. of salable meat. Once, such byproducts as the hide, tallow, blood, offal and stomach were very profitable. But today their prices are down and the packer must figure on making more money on the carcass, for which he can currently get about $275. Whether he will make any profit at all, after expenses, often depends on whether the meat is graded "prime," "choice...
...mayor for bribery and theft of public funds. None of his convictions was ever reversed on appeal, but none of them gave him particular pleasure. Said he: "I never heard a jury bring in a verdict of guilty but that I felt sick at the pit of my stomach...
Chronic Mistakes. Moreover, said Menninger, emotional troubles account for 85% of "stomach trouble" and "a very large percentage of heart difficulties." It is some 25 to 30% of the population who cause 60 to 100% of all accidents; they are the "accident-prone," related closely to "the mistake-makers that somehow or other keep on making the same mistakes again and again and again..." All of them are emotionally disturbed. "It is taken as a matter of course that cut fingers, broken arms and upset stomachs should have immediate attention. But it is seldom realized that prompt handling...
...occur to John X that he was emotionally ill. It was his stomach, he said. A battery of doctors found nothing wrong there. Then John X "knew" the worst: he was going to die soon, probably from one of those hard-to-detect cancers of the stomach. Forced to give up some meetings, he spent the evenings at home talking to his wife about his life insurance. He slept poorly and lost weight. He gave up hope. Late one night the tension in his mind became so great that John X threatened to end his life, but his wife talked...
First to go was John X's feeling 3 wounded pride. Then, though he still fretted about the office and his stomach pains, at least he fretted less. After about five weeks, he began to feel grateful for the overall physical and psychological care he was getting, and to welcome his doctor's visits, even though some of the interviews were unpleasant. Thus he began to reveal more and more about the rockbound New England upbringing which had made him so rigidly "moral" that he was hardly human. He began to see that while he admired his wife...