Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...season, a good one-fifth of the customers show up between midnight and 8 a.m., seeking, in the words of one freshman, "to fill that one tiny corner of your stomach that's still screaming for sugar." He's not on a full-scale food run, the student explains, just a Snickers bar and some penny candy. The average sale is, in fact, about $1.50, Higgins says, but that takes into account the 340 sales a day of a single can of soda, the people who come just for a break and buy a single three-cent mint, and, conversely...
...throw it to him more. Everybody around me started laughing. I love football so much, especially seeing Paul out there. Except for kick-offs-I don't like watching those because that's when you can really get hurt. I get the weirdest feeling in my stomach sometimes, worrying about Paul getting hurt...
...youngest sister Babe Botrelle (Mia Dillon) has reached full immaturity. She is out on bail after having shot her husband in the stomach and very nearly killing him. Asked why she did it, Babe replies, "I didn't like his looks." Prior to the attempted murder, Babe had been carrying on an affair with a 15-year-old black boy. Asked to explain that, Babe answers, "I was so lonely and he was gooood...
With the capture of Washington-he was, poor chap, taken to London and hanged as a traitor-the rebellion collapsed, and no one else had the stature or the stomach to start it up again. That ancient rogue Benjamin Franklin, who had persuaded King Louis XVI to bankrupt his treasury in the rebel cause, was content to remain in Paris, for instance, chasing young ladies and flying kites in thunderstorms. Thomas Jefferson, the greatest propagandist of the age, also sought refuge in Europe, where he lived with his beautiful black mistress and continued his mischief-making for another 43 years...
Beyond its wit, the language of Riddley Walker haunts and challenges in a way that English cannot. Where English is insufficient, Hoban simply invents penetrating new words. The gnawing sensation of terror inside the stomach is the "fearbelly"; both the sight and sound of an angry dog are expressed by "grooling and smarling...