Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dozing off as you sit at a welcome dinner at the B-School dining hall. Among the pant-suited ladies and pin-striped gentlement sit sweat-suited heavies and lights, discussing the day's trials, but never mentioning the outcome of seat racing. You fill your sit-up-tightened stomach fairly quickly, forgetting about the two pounds you have to lose before weigh-ins during the season, and head back talking quietly with friends to your empty house and room...
Deputy Prime Minister Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado, a liberal army officer sprang to his feet to confront the raiders, but was butted savagely in the stomach with a submachine gun and manhandled into his seat. Outgoing Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez angrily rose and declared that he still represented the people. "Sit down, pig!" shouted one of the attackers. As shots rang out, most of the legislators ducked, but Suárez remained defiantly upright on the government front bench...
...while Boyer thought of becoming a doctor, but after assisting at an autopsy he decided he did not have the stomach for such work. His interest in genetics was awakened almost accidentally when he was asked one day at St. Vincent to deliver a class report on DNA, which had only recently been firmly established as the molecule that forms genes. Says Boyer: "I got hooked. There was something very beautiful about it. It explained a lot of things." After earning a Ph.D. in bacteriology from the University of Pittsburgh, he did postdoctoral studies at Yale, becoming so immersed...
...officers punch him (Grammerstorf) in the stomach, but that was only so they could subdue him." Walker said, adding that he did not see the alleged clubbing of Matthews because he was watching the struggle between Grammerstorf and the police...
...know why the guy started hitting Sven. The attack was totally unprovoked." Matthews said, adding that after he tried to intervene in the fight, the police began punching both of them in the head and stomach...