Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the center's open house, Harry Hollis, 64, a retired carpenter, chatted at the punch bowl with Jim Miller, 48. Hollis, the day before, had held in his hands a strip of eleven color photographs taken of the inside of his stomach. Miller had recently spent a day patched to a portable EKG machine. Doc Rose's calendar showed an appendectomy first thing in the morning. It no longer seemed to matter how long it had been since his last haircut...
January 7: It has become dinner conversation. I turn around to the people at the table behind me and tell them that their constant use of the word terminal is turning my stomach. The one who has been doing all the talking turns to me and stares. He has black half-moons under his eyes that make him look like a high school football player. "It makes me sick too," he says, "I was just on for 14 hours straight." I look closer and realize his face is as puffy as a marshmallow; I assume that the machine has just...
CHAPTERS OF The Devil's Alternative end with a short sentence in a haunting passive voice. "Lunches were ill-digested," goes one, and your's may not sit quietly in the stomach either after finishing Frederick Forsyth's latest and alarmingly timely new novel...