Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with his moving assembly line had, by 1933, been displaced as the world's biggest automaker by a nimble conglomerate, General Motors, which gave better styling (at a higher price) and believed in modern corporate decentralization instead of Ford's autocratic one-man rule. Ford could not stomach being bested; he opposed anything that General Motors had developed first, refused to let his subordinates mention G.M.'s name. The decline of his company and of the whole U.S. economy also stiffened his opposition to labor unions. While the daring Henry Ford of 1915 had made history...
Those travelers accustomed to the standards of France's Guide Michelin -or even the lounge-lizard airs of Fielding-may lack stomach for the unstarred beaneries and spare accommodations of Frommer's Europe. But others choose the best of both worlds, take the money they have saved with $5 a Day and squander all on a gala dinner at the Tour d'Argent-where the décor is exquisite, the food superb, and the prices unmentionable...
Dazed, Patterson staggered up once again, only to meet a left to the stomach and a brutal left to the head, which sent him to the canvas for the last time...
With his waddling walk and jolly demeanor, pudgy Sevilla-Sacasa does not look very ambassadorial, but he has splendid qualifications for the deanship: a lot of pocket money, a large capacity for cocktails, an imperturbable stomach, a gift for small talk and a good memory. He takes his deanly duties seriously. "Thirty years ago," he clucks, "diplomats were expected to be aware of all phases of diplomacy before they came to Washington. Not so today. They need help, and this is what I am here for." One highly important help is Sevilla-Sacasa's method for introducing a newly...
...basic knowledge. Since Dr. Kretchmer and his colleagues want data that can be applied to all premature babies, they are studying an average run of preemies. Most are normal except for their size, though last week one had to be fed by a tube leading directly into its stomach through an incision above the navel. It hiccuped constantly, prompting a nurse to remark: "That ruins the theory that eating and swallowing air cause hiccups -that little fellow never swallowed anything in his life...