Word: stomachal
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Despite warnings of an imminent energy emergency, the White House had no stomach for alienating big business by imposing tough conservation laws that would curb consumption, thus shearing profits at many corporations and at the same time irritating the electorate. In addition, the President and his top aides are ideologically opposed to any interference in the free market; to them planning is a dirty word. According to their classical economic gospel, if shortages occur, prices will rise, and this in turn will cause a burst in output...
People are traumatized, cynical, bored and exhausted. They wish Watergate would go away. Though they have little stomach for impeachment, a surprising number, their minds numbed by the constant bombardment of bad news from Washington, hope President Nixon will solve the crisis by resigning...
...Filipino internists accepted the offer last May. Word of the program spread through the neighborhood, and the doctors now average about 30 patients a day, with ailments that range from a child's simple cough to stomach cancer. Since the clinic opened, it has referred 196 patients to Cabrini, raising the hospital's "bed census" by about 5%. "The idea is working," says Hospital Board Chairman Sister Irma Lunghi. "We're not saying that this is going to save the hospital, or the community either, but it is a start...
...built like a dynamo; he was standing just across the room, reading a magazine on the bar, completely starkers, and in profile view. I quickly shifted my position to shield my crotch from any stray glances, and I started going bananas. I began to shake uncontrollably--arms, legs, stomach--because I was in the grip of two incontrollable forces. One: don't give yourself away. Two: attack him. If it were possible to get a hernia while sitting down, I would have gotten one. After about five minutes of this, I got up, took a cold shower, and went back...
Specialists called in from Peking, Shanghai and Canton discovered from chemical analysis of Lady Li's hair and tissues from her stomach, liver, muscles and bone that she had type A blood. Gynecological examination revealed that she had borne children...