Word: stomachable
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...Just a short jab," I always say. "Don't get any big ideas about letting go with one of those roundhouse rights you've seen in the movies. While you're winding up, that bear'll claw your stomach out." I know that sounds gruesome, but better safe than sorry...
...brown bear touches you, the book says, "curl up in a ball, protecting your stomach and neck, and play dead. If the attack is prolonged, however, change tactics and fight back vigorously. If it is a black bear, do not play dead at all; fight back...
Close your eyes and you might imagine you were hearing Jesse Jackson. Just ask Jackson. He can't stomach Buchanan on any number of grounds, but even he gives him credit for "going to the heart of people's economic fears." To the immense discomfort of his party, Buchanan is bringing the class war home to the heart of the G.O.P. With great success, Republicans have been playing for decades on one enduring strand of populism, a resentment of Big Government. Buchanan has revived another that his party cannot so easily accommodate: hostility to Big Business...
...Tartikoff announced NBC's fall schedule. "Barry came up, and we shot the breeze for a while. And then he leaned in close and said, very casually, 'We're going to announce that we're putting The Simpsons against The Cosby Show.' It made me feel sick to my stomach." At the time, the notion of scheduling Fox's most successful show opposite one of the most popular TV shows of all time seemed foolhardy to many. As it happened, The Simpsons held its own and went on to become a cornerstone of Fox's schedule...
...mind. On the outside, it varied from a regular horse only in its size and in the fact that it occasionally said, "Clear that with my accountant." Its inside, though, where machine tools and Learjets depreciated in a gooey vat of oil-depletion allowances, looked like the stomach in an antacid commercial...