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...smooth muscles, including those of the womb. Soon doctors were using them to speed up labor in difficult births and to induce abortion when other techniques had failed, or seemed unsuitable. Yet such abortifacients (as these drugs are called) had serious shortcomings. Usually administered intravenously, they often caused stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and other physical problems. Thus pharmaceutical firms have looked for artificial variants without side effects that could be delivered directly into the vagina...
Anyone who spends any time at the beach has seen scenes like the one capture by Peter Rappoli--three adults talking at the water's edge, the women in skirted bathing suits, men with just a little too much stomach hanging over the edge of their trunks, and the sky and the seemingly endless sand dwarfing them. This grouping of people contrasts sharply with the three twilight figures...
...Fitzgerald's wife Zelda, who hated Hemingway. He. in return, contended that she had ruined her husband's talent with her jealousy. Writing to Editor Perkins in 1933. Hemingway was of the callous opinion that Fitzgerald's salvation lay in Zelda's death or a stomach ailment that would prevent his drinking...
...support a congressional move to roll back huge increases in Social Security taxes scheduled to start next year. And the President so far has tended to view regulatory decisions in an isolated, case-by-case way, rather than weighing their inflationary impact. Further, he seems to have no stomach for Lyndon Johnson-style jawboning of labor and business. The inflationary genie may be out of the bottle...
With the score 4-4 the fencers came together for three consecutive double touches before Kaplan drove Drvobinsky to the end of the strip, feinted high and then disengaged his blade. While running forward, he rammed his blade into his opponent's stomach for the victory...