Word: stomachal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...shoot the New York Senator, and there was little dispute at the time over his sentence to life imprisonment. Since then, however, a number of ballistics experts have found discrepancies between a bullet that struck Kennedy in the neck and the bullet that hit Bystander William Weisel in the stomach. Another bullet fired in the attack wounded Paul Schrade, a former United Autoworkers official and Kennedy aide. Although he does not support any conspiracy theory, Schrade has tried for more than a year to get the case reopened to remove all doubts that Sirhan was the only gunman...
...determine the correlation, Commoner and his Washington University colleagues tested 92 chemical compounds on strains of the common bacteria Salmonella typhimurium, developed by Ames. Each compound was made up in three different concentrations and mixed with preparations made from seven different rat tissues (liver, kidney, brain, stomach, lung, spleen and blood); each of the mixtures was then added to culture dishes containing the Salmonella...
...their needs while passing knowing smiles to each other behind the men's backs. Secure in their aloofness and a sense of superiority, the women dispense maternal care in its oddest forms, and the men go home happy. One client makes elaborate banana splits on a naked woman's stomach while munching on a banana. A man from Georgia comes to watch a white woman do erotic dances with a black woman. A finance mogul pays Xaviera to huskily recite the Dow Jones averaged while she strips on his conference table. A preppie comes in to talk to his woman...
...tell that Dreyfuss and Spielberg were right in synch because the balance between tension and release--a crucial asset to horror movies--is what the director does really well. Unlike The Exorcist, which constantly kept your stomach gnarled waiting for what atrocity you would be subjected to next, shark attacks in Jaws are well spaced until the end when Spielberg turns it on full force, Swooping you up and whooshing you down, it's the fun of a fishy roller coaster ride. Spielberg is better at the slow thrills--that sort of slither up on you and let you fall...
Kitty stuffed her lover's finicky stomach with the best English food, fussed over his frequent colds, and emptied his pockets when he came home from the wars. When he had to be away, he wrote her "Dear Wifey" notes asking her to be a "brave little woman"-letters, one reader has observed, "such as a kitchenmaid might receive from the underfootman...