Word: stomachal
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...brutalized the sisters by force-feeding them during their long hunger strike. Force-feeding -in which a person's mouth is clamped open while a greased tube is inserted through his nose and a "complan" solution of iron, orange and milk-soaked glucose is poured directly into the stomach-usually causes acute vomiting...
Angola and Mozambique are more troublesome. Both have large white populations and big Portuguese economic investments. In neither territory, moreover, can the principal guerrilla movements claim, as they can in Guinea, to speak for most blacks. Yet unrest in Portugal makes one thing clear: the country has no more stomach for war in Africa, and the junta will have to grant the African territories freedom, whatever its shape and form. "There is no doubt about it," says Henrique Scares de Melo, a white lawyer in Mozambique who is expected to be named soon to head an interim territorial government...
...crippled President who calls. "I intellectually concluded that I had no alternative but to come over here," he says of his decision to quit his post as Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and, subsequently, to resign from the Army. "It was a difficult decision in my stomach, but not in my head." He left the order of the military, where he knew what was expected of him, for the uncertainties of the political scene made all the more unpredictable by Watergate. Reflecting, he says: "I've commanded units in combat in which the ultimate sacrifice...
...climbed Avital, one of three hills west of Quneitra, and looked across the flat plain that is Syria. It was easy to feel in the pit of your stomach why the hills mean so much to the Israelis. They command the entire plain. Suddenly, as if to confirm our musings, there were bursts of dirty smoke followed by bangs. The Syrian guns were at work, and the Israelis fired back. "It is an artillery war," explained an Israeli colonel...
...mixture of animal intestines and oatmeal, usually boiled in a sheep's stomach...