Word: stomachable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...great. That, in effect, is the same argument being used today by supporters of a government rescue for the cash-burning U.S. auto industry. The consequences of allowing a manufacturing giant like GM to collapse would, their thinking goes, be too onerous for an economy already in recession to stomach. (See the 10 worst business deals...
...Slovak politician, skeptical of the facts and figures trotted out by his opponents, used to say, “You can’t fill your stomach with a pretty graph.” Such mistrust of science, where it occurs, is not entirely surprising: Consider the great number of “experts” who discredited themselves through spectacularly imprecise predictions and pointless internecine skirmishes. The public cannot help but feel confused to the point of paralysis by the holding pattern of contradictory studies and untenable claims into which today’s scientific discourse can lapse...
...than Iraq and more than 75 percent of all Afghans live in remote rural communities where the Taliban now has a significant base of support. Controlling a growing Taliban insurgency across this vast countryside will be impossible with just 58,000 American soldiers. Our NATO allies are showing no stomach for this fight, and the Afghans themselves are poorly equipped to help. In contrast to the current situation in Iraq, America has not been able to train up a significant local army and police force to support security operations. Also in contrast to Iraq, the insurgency in Afghanistan...
...time later—minutes? hours?—Roxanna found herself atop Zalathal the stallion, draped across his back as Frederick tickled her seductively with a piece of straw. Felicity was standing on a chair as the stallion unwillingly slurped a mixture of honey and oats off her stomach. The Stable Boy was on the chair behind her, stroking Felicity with practiced fingers as he murmured...
...hands drifted downward to rest on her stomach. It curved softly beneath her sullied fingers. She closed her eyes...