Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...studying air controllers intensively since at least the 1960s, but findings are contradictory. In one sampling, the percentage of controllers with high blood pressure was only a third of the national average. In another, the percentage was more than double the norm. One researcher found frequent ulcers and other stomach disorders. Another found heartbeat irregularities among controllers at twice the rate for other men their age. Still other research found that resentment of management was the greatest source of controller dissatisfaction, while "stress" was, in fact, the negative aspect of work that the controllers cited least. In addition, rates...
...after two weeks, the war of nerves becomes irrelevant. The trays keep arriving, but by now the prisoners have lost their craving for food. The stomach cramps and pains recede and eventually disappear. The prisoners concentrate instead on their daily five pints of water. Now their only concern is whether they can hold down the water without retching. A small bowl of salt is provided for each prisoner, and he can sprinkle in as much as he wants. When the hunger strikes are far along, the prisoners ask for carbonated water and the British grant the request...
...hundred offered to die. I.R.A. commanders in the Maze, startled by the number, ordered the hunger strikes to begin. The volunteers quickly became heroes, paid special attention by the other prisoners, passed extra cigarettes, showered with support in the early days of stomach cramps. Poems were written to them and recited through the pipes and doors and shouted across the blocks...
...trumpets Harris, and he does indeed: he wades hippo-deep through the rank mud of his loopy monologues. The generously muscled O'Keeffe utters not an intelligible word-only Tarzan's patented bull-elephant yodel. As for Bo's acting, she sucks in her stomach to look pretty and chews her cuticles to suggest fear. Alas, all the displays of Bo's body cannot divert attention from the ludicrous ineptness of the enterprise. Nothing breaks a tumid erotic spell faster than giggling...
Fields that would have turned Shakespeare's stomach, as what, in this travesty, wouldn't? -By T.E. Kalem