Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ahmed hopes to study medicine one day, "because my people need doctors." Asked if he has a more personal impetus, he says that he loves science, and his expression shows it. "I love to see how the body works-the head, the stomach, the heart." Can he retain his politics and be a doctor too? "The first work of a doctor is not to be a political man." He is presented with a hypothetical situation: he is a doctor fighting in Israel; a wounded Israeli comes to him for help. "Are you a Palestinian or a doctor...
...rumps with sticks. During Spectacular Bid's stirring three-year-old season (1979), just when Bid's teen-age jockey Ron Franklin was about to be mistaken for Mickey, Franklin hopped down off a gelding named Big Vision one day and kicked him right in the stomach. So much for sentimentality...
STRATEGICALLY, AS HAS BEEN SAID so often, the policy makes no sense. Whatever the ideological leanings of the rebels--and usually they lean toward the full stomach and the healthy body--we push them towards the idiot inflexibilities of Russia. We did it to Cuba; we are doing it to Nicaragua; almost surely we will do it to El Salvador, and then Guatemala, and then Honduras, and on and on. Poor countries need someone to help them out, and though the Cuban example has proven that reliance on Moscow and a totalitarian economy is not fiscally sound (and there...
...cream in front of him," Janice recalls. The pounds piled on, and soon she was much heavier than when she had started dieting. Like some anorectics, Janice then started trying to make herself throw up after food binges. "I drank mustard powder mixed with water because it burns your stomach," she remembers, adding, "Now just the thought of mustard makes me sick," Janice also experimented with laxatives but developed an allergy to the ingredients which left her skin red and blotchy...
...made the unlikely seem inevitable. Instead, he channels his energies into sour asides on the state of modern urban life and spasms of empurpled prose: "The drink was gone. The last of it was going in a crawling sear down his esophagus, and then it struck his stomach with the breath-stopping burn of eating at the membrane over an ulcer...