Word: stomachal
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...where they had to compete with thousands of other fluorescent fliers, they were aware that this was enough. For any Harvard student with a moral resume under his or her belt, and that's actually most of us, the fact that this might work is a little hard to stomach...
Carmack's RBI single two batters later wasevidently more than Chase could stomach, as heplunked freshman Josh San Salvador, the lastbatter he faced...
...Army to achieve its goal of fielding such a force that could fight for two weeks without resupply. But until then, the speed of deployment is mostly dependent on how quickly the Army can set up logistics links. Napoleon's old dictum that an army travels on its stomach remains true today...
...fiery agony. I still remember one awful night 25 years ago, when I ate a greasy lump of fried dough on a train in Yugoslavia. It felt as though I had swallowed a vial of hydrochloric acid. Actually, that's not too far from the truth. The stomach is essentially a bag filled with powerful acid. If it weren't for a lining of protective cells, the stomach itself would dissolve. If the acid stays put, most people never give it another thought. Sometimes, though, it doesn't stay put. Foods like chocolate, mints, caffeine and alcohol relax the esophageal...
BOTTOMS UP Here's a reason to belly up to the bar. A German study shows that moderate amounts of alcohol (one or two drinks daily) can kill off H. pylori, bacteria that scientists think cause stomach ulcers. Wine seems to do the job best; those who drank it reduced their odds of an H. pylori infection 42%. For beer drinkers, the risk was reduced...