Word: stomached
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...professional golf, the way to a man's success appears to be through his stomach. Gary Player will go on for hours about the nutritive values of raisins. Jack Nicklaus dotes on oysters, consuming as many as six dozen at a sitting. Billy Casper, the year's top money winner ($81,515 so far) swears by a diet of buffalo steak and mooseburger. Last week at Akron's Firestone Country Club, Al Geiberger, 28, won the big gest prize of his seven-year pro career -the $25,000 P.G.A. championship - and announced that he owed...
...greatest mass slaughter since the St. Valentine's Day tommy-gun massacre of seven gangland hoods in 1929, it was by any standard one of the most horrifying crimes in U.S. history. Even to Chicago police - inured to every form of sadistic death - the apartment presented a heartrending, stomach-turning spectacle. "In my six years as coroner, geon," and in as many years as police surgeon," said Coroner Andrew Toman, "I have never seen anything this bad. This is the crime of the century...
...reached for his cigarettes he punched in the mouth and in the stomach. In the scuffle, the student ripped attacker's shirt pocket off. Grabbed from behind and pounded on the head from both sides, the student finally hit at them and broke for his door...
...week by a limousine in the White House driveway. Reporters were solemnly informed of daughter Lynda Bird's reaction (she burst tearfully in on a meeting with Congressmen to tell her father), of Lady Bird's reaction ("It makes you feel you have been hit in the stomach with a hard rock"), of Lyndon's reaction ("We are having a sad time at the White House tonight"), and the tearjerking details continued to flow for days...
...Indiana and discovered that it had taken them an average of nearly eleven years of graduate study to get their degrees. It also cost them about $34,000 each, counting lost income while studying, and 20% developed ulcers or nervous disorders. The study worsened Schrodt's own nervous stomach and fed the growing feeling among many educators that the Ph.D., at least for teachers, may not be worth all that time, pain and expense...