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Deputy Prime Minister Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado, a liberal army officer sprang to his feet to confront the raiders, but was butted savagely in the stomach with a submachine gun and manhandled into his seat. Outgoing Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez angrily rose and declared that he still represented the people. "Sit down, pig!" shouted one of the attackers. As shots rang out, most of the legislators ducked, but Suárez remained defiantly upright on the government front bench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: The Franquista Coup That Failed | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...while Boyer thought of becoming a doctor, but after assisting at an autopsy he decided he did not have the stomach for such work. His interest in genetics was awakened almost accidentally when he was asked one day at St. Vincent to deliver a class report on DNA, which had only recently been firmly established as the molecule that forms genes. Says Boyer: "I got hooked. There was something very beautiful about it. It explained a lot of things." After earning a Ph.D. in bacteriology from the University of Pittsburgh, he did postdoctoral studies at Yale, becoming so immersed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Blue-Chips for a Biochemist | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...officers punch him (Grammerstorf) in the stomach, but that was only so they could subdue him." Walker said, adding that he did not see the alleged clubbing of Matthews because he was watching the struggle between Grammerstorf and the police...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Police Arrest Two Students | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...know why the guy started hitting Sven. The attack was totally unprovoked." Matthews said, adding that after he tried to intervene in the fight, the police began punching both of them in the head and stomach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Police Arrest Two Students | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...Even now, though, when I have occasion to engage in any transaction with a college-educated black man, I gauge his age. If I guess he was born after 1945, 1 feel confident that the transaction will turn out all right. If he probably was born before 1945, my stomach tightens, I find myself taking shallow breaths, and I try to state my business and escape as soon as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Carolina: Growing Up Black in the '40s | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

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