Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refused to restore censorship, contented himself with asking newsmen to tone down their attacks for a while. At a national conference of journalists in Prague, the newsmen announced that they could be silenced only by force. "I am not interested in the pronouncements of those who cannot stomach freedom of the press," proclaimed Literárni Listy Editor Antonin Liehm. "The alternatives are simple. Either they will win, in which case more than just freedom of the press will disappear from this country's life, or they will lose...
Locking Up Danny. Early in the conference, Paris Student Leader Danny ("the Red") Cohn-Bendit, an unofficial observer, created pandemonium when he berated the representatives as an "assembly of old soldiers" who had no stomach for real revolution. Scuffles broke out on the floor, and Danny was hustled out and locked up in a backstage room for half an hour until a semblance of order could be restored. He returned just in time to hear Mexican Delegate Domingo Rojas blame Soviet influence and Fidel Castro for the sad lot of Cuban anarchists languishing in exile in Miami. "Viva Castro!" shouted...
...clash when he was clubbed from behind. NBC Cameraman James Strickland was photographing Hall's plight when he was hit in the face and toppled. Even while he was on the air, CBS Floor Reporter Dan Rather was flattened by two security men; one hit him in the stomach, the other in the back. Rather's colleague, Mike Wallace, was belted in the jaw by a guard and hustled out of the hall. The attacks on newspaper and TV reporters became so flagrant that eight top executives of news-gathering organizations* strongly protested the treatment in a telegram...
...about key signatures. While rehearsing a Haydn Notturno for his second concert, he says, "I told the orchestra, 'This music was intended to be played after a heavy dinner of turtle soup, a souffle, duckling, venison, ice, and crepe suzette! And now play with all that in your stomach.' They understood...
...becomes a vice president. A fellow schoolmarm extends a lesbian hand that Rachel shakes off. A visitor (James Olson) "looking for a little action" finds some in Rachel, but he vanishes before she realizes that she has been had. Even her body thwarts her: a swelling in her stomach turns out to be not a pregnancy but a noncancerous tumor. It is the only benign thing that has ever happened...