Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began having labor pains, which, it turned out, were false. When Deadwyler noticed a pursuing patrol car, he voluntarily pulled over to let it escort them. Officer Bova, according to her testimony, put his service revolver through the passenger window and pulled the trigger, shooting Deadwyler in the stomach. He then turned impassively away. Four Negro witnesses agreed with her that the car had come to a full stop when Bova approached...
Mandragola, set in Italy at the close of the quattrocento, uses the stones of Florence to soften up a girl's resistance. As an impregnably virtuous Renaissance lady enduring a crash course in fertility, Rosanna Schiaffino is stretched out in bed with large, warm rocks on her stomach, then is marinated in giant tubfuls of broth, and finally is sealed, screeching, into a body-length hot-water bag to test another old wives' tale. More than 400 years after it was penned by the cynical Renaissance moralist, Niccolo Machiavelli, this ribald comedy classic still looks exuberantly...
...Duty. "My father would read to us," he says, remembering a literary childhood, "for the four nights of the week when he didn't have enough money for beer." A woman magistrate, trying Behan for something or other, "had a face like Harris tweed." He shows no stomach for the lot of the ' workingman: "Someone that does j things that are dirty, boring, dangerous or all three." He knows a writer's duty: "To let his Fatherland down, otherwise he is no writer. In the name of Jesus, how the hell can a writer attack anyone else...
...Stomach. In Danang, Ky's strategy was simple but relentless. His 3,000 loyal troops-marines, airborne and Rangers-slowly drove the rebel force of 1,200 into an eight-block area centering on the east bank of the Danang River and three Buddhist pagodas. At the outset, neither side had any stomach for killing: most of the gunfire was purposely aimed high. Government tanks cleared street after street, carefully hosing them with .50-cal. machine-gun fire as they moved forward. Government spotter planes circled the rebel area, dropping leaflets that announced the appointment of General Huynh...
...have no stomach for fighting with widows," announced Conservative Polemicist William F. Buckley Jr., 40. He may have played a bit rough with the widow's late husband, Yale Law School Professor Fowler V. Harper, charging four years ago in his National Review that Harper had given "aid and comfort" to Communist causes by lending his name to a Viet Nam protest petition. Harper died last year before his $500,000 libel suit against Buckley was resolved, but his widow pressed on. Finally, Buckley put the matter to rest by settling for $13,750 in New York State Supreme...