Word: stomachal
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...steal a march on congressional Democrats, who were loudly threatening to write a freeze into law. But some of the President's closest advisers, notably Shultz and Stein, who cherish an almost mystical devotion to the free market, seemed strongly opposed; they swallowed one freeze, but might not stomach another...
...sought the cooperation of their fellow prisoners in collaboration. As a result, they allegedly secured favors-including beer, peanuts and popcorn, and trips to Hanoi. Guy said that partly because "certain people talked," he was beaten by guards-"I had some teeth knocked out and I had my stomach muscles kicked loose." All eight of the men he has accused, said Guy, disrupted his command by failure to cooperate, and also by revealing what he was doing to organize the prisoners and by running their own counter-organization...
Died. Vaughn Monroe, 61, singer-bandleader whose off-key, nasal baritone made million-selling recordings of Racing with the Moon, Ballerina and There! I've Said It Again; after stomach surgery; in Stuart, Fla. A onetime trumpeter in East Coast society bands, Monroe formed his own group in 1940 and during the next decade combined a regular radio show (Camel Caravan) with as many as 200 one-night stands a year. Though his voice was dubbed the "Million-Dollar Monotone" by critics, the debonair showman remained a starring attraction until the '50s when, with the advent of rock...
...faults, Hoover kept the FBI safe from the quadrennial quakes of partisan politics. He played politics impartially with Republicans and Democrats to maintain the independence of his empire. His agents knew this and realized how much they benefited from it. Those who could not stomach some of Hoover's autocratic actions got out of the FBI-but they did not talk. Only in his final years was there a split in the ranks between pro-Hoover and anti-Hoover factions, and this was scarcely visible from the outside...
...Democrats just couldn't stomach the defeat Richard Nixon plastered them with in the elections last November, and the Watergate incident was the only club they could readily grab to beat him over the head with in retaliation...