Word: stomachal
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...will walk into a Harvard which is experiencing the worst growing pains it has had for quite a while--pains which are the symptoms of long standing problems in the Harvard community. And for the first time since 1949, when Lamont Library was completed, the headache and stomach upset of construction will be felt in Harvard Yard...
...cross to bear, that it made me feel like an animal on the defensive, all the time. And suddenly she wheeled around with a screaming red-blotched face, ripping herself out of bathrobe and bra until she was white and naked before me. She pointed hysterically to her stomach and she was shrieking "Shut up! Shut up, will you? I've got hairs on my stomach! Look at them! Can't you see them? They're hairs there! Spiky black hairs. They're ugly. They're disgusting" she stuck her stomach into my face, and then she stiffened coldly...
...Jack Lousma and Owen Garriott had finally overcome a bad case of motion sickness brought on by their exposure to zero G. During the initial stages of their mission, the crewmen-especially Lousma, who vomited several times-were barely able to perform routine housekeeping and experimental chores. But their "stomach awareness," as NASA euphemistically called it, was quickly overshadowed by the oxidizer leak...
...onslaught of molds and fungi. "If we had not found a solution," says Baldini, "those frescoes would have been devoured by micro-organisms." He and his colleagues ran through dozens of mold-killing antibiotics to test their effect on paint. Finally one was left: Squibb's Nystatin, a stomach medicine, which did not harm the pigments. But it came in the form of pills, which could not be fed to a wall. At last the University of Florence's chemistry department found a way to render powdered Nystatin soluble, and it was sprayed on the frescoes...
...they are probably part of an autonomous offshoot of the fedayeen movement. In the past, Libya has dealt leniently with Palestinian terrorists; this time may be different. Even in what Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban calls the "pathological capital of the world," this skyjacking may be too much to stomach...