Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a succession of bothersome colds, 85-year-old Dowager Queen Mary was again confined to her bed in Marlborough House. This time it was a stomach ailment. Nothing serious, said the royal physicians, but it had hung on longer than it should. Nevertheless, from Manhattan, the Duke of Windsor and his visiting sister, the Princess Royal, were summoned to her bedside in London...
There were traces of many hemorrhages in the heart muscle, of others in the lining of the stomach and intestines. Hopefully the doctors proclaimed that they had been right all along and that nothing could have saved the dictator's life...
...Pythagoras also dabbled in metempsychosis-the belief that dead men's souls migrate to other living bodies in an endless process of reincarnation. This was a notion that Moscow's monthly Kommunist could not stomach...
Close for the Kill. As for Jenner. "I have been present at [his] hearings. They are of a character to make any honest American sick to his stomach . . . I have seen only one sight to compare with it-a Spanish bullfight, where half a dozen men stick sharp knives into the bull to enrage him before the matador, or in this case, the committee chairman, closes in for the kill. By observing the Jenner hearings, the technique for persecuting the teaching profession can be forecast. The plan is to expose a few teachers who look suspicious and may even...
...slowed. Then he saw something even stranger: a weak blink of light on the ground near the car. He stopped, got out. A white-faced state trooper was sprawled there in the darkness, working a flashlight button with his thumb, and dying from a bullet wound in his stomach...