Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Indian students jokingly call the "wannabee" tribe (translate: the Want-to-be Indians), who flock to reservations carrying the good word of education and health care. Of course they are appreciated, and Tsosie says his education started with them; but their outsider, holier-than-thou attitude is hard to stomach, Tsosie says...
...many lobbyists contend, Congress will lack the stomach to attempt true reform unless a genuine crisis is perceived. Some see the huge deficit as that crisis and the need for Government revenue as a spur to help solve the problem. Contends Tax Lobbyist Charls Walker, a former Treasury official: "Fundamental tax reform can only be passed as part of a major deficit-reduction package. A revenue-neutral plan has no chance." That view could prove too gloomy, but if tax reform is to have a chance, the President will soon have to take the lead-and the heat...
...evolves. Brady does a good job of presenting a man who endured both hyperactive and melancholy tendencies. Boswell had an abundance of faults. For instance he drank too much; for this Johnson called him a man "without skill in inebriation." He was also intensely proud. Enamored of his strong stomach, he once stuffed himself aboard ship only to become violently ill with alacrity...
...example, recent studies have determined that one type of fern, bracken, a popular Japanese food, may cause stomach cancer...
...Roof (1955). In Vieux Carre, written more than 20 years later, it has become more difficult for the author to rise above melodrama. And while we've certainly come to expect the simplistic repetition of the themes, there still is a limit to how much we can stomach of lines like, "People die of loneliness ...loneliness is so thick in this house, you can feel it,' and "There's no defense against the truth...