Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that draftees could specify their choice of service; a sergeant could still snarl at a boot: "Nobody asked you to join this outfit, bub." Now the Marines had to go begging. The Marines would presumably still have the right to wash out anyone who couldn't stomach the rugged training. But the sad fact these days, said one Marine major, is that there are just "not enough glory hunters" any more...
...months the Shahinshah, Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, has been suffering from severe pains in his royal stomach. The symptoms seemed to point to appendicitis. The Shah wanted to leave the country to have the necessary operation performed, presumably in Western Europe or the U.S. But with his country's Nationalists screaming that anything the West could do they could do better (including running Iran's oilfields), His Majesty decided it would be unwise politically, if wise medically, to seek relief abroad. He stayed at home and suffered. But recently the appendix got too troublesome...
...next 48 hours, he tries on a man-about-town role several sizes too large for him. Getting sickly drunk at a bar, he slithers away in a Walter Mitty mood, pretending: "Rocky's mob got me ... I kept putting my hand under my jacket, on my stomach and all, to keep the blood from dripping all over the place. I didn't want anybody to know I was even wounded . . . Boy, was I drunk...
Fancied Neglect. Inwardly, Lucy Freeman was in a mess. She had never known more people and never felt lonelier. She was miserable and gripped by a sense of futility. Her stomach was queasy and her sinuses were blocked. After countless painful sinus treatments, a doctor suggested psychoanalysis...
Sore Point. The Canton, Ohio station is just as sore a point with some; one passenger described its men's room as "a place that would turn a vulture's stomach." But what irritates a few Cantonians most is the grudging attitude of Pennsylvania employees toward passengers. Said Assistant Vice President H. W. Hoover Jr. of the Hoover (vacuum cleaners) Co.: "They show . . . utter disregard of their responsibility to the public." Hoover executives are so indignant that they refuse to ride the Pennsy from Chicago to their headquarters at Canton...