Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hopkins, a much-suffering man, chronically ill with vague internal maladies which have been diagnosed as everything from gastric ulcers to nervous stomach, has been in good health (for him) for more than a year, suffered a recent relapse only when he lost his pills in Moscow. The importance of Hopkins' illness was in his position as a Washington influence. If a project has his approval, it cuts through Army, Navy and defense red tape, with absolute priority. If it has not his approval, dust gathers on it, important people forget it, its backers gradually fade away. When Harry...
G.O.P. Chairman Joe Martin felt a stomach-chilling temblor when anti-Willkie feeling in Congress and the party, rumbling, hissing, giving off steam, threatened to split the party...
Other businessmen often ask Frank Cohen what will happen to Empire Ordnance after World War II. "I don't know," he replies, "but I do know we'll have done a good job." Last week he stood in his mushrooming factory, his hands folded across his ample stomach, benignly watching the instruments of destruction take shape. Said he modestly, almost inaudibly, with the greatest satisfaction: "These will get That...
...wartime London it looked as if Monty had swallowed too much for his ancient stomach. For ex-Cassandra Keynes, personal braintruster to ex-Cassandra Winston Churchill, has already seen his ex-radical fiscal ideas (notably compulsory savings) become an integral part of British national policy...
...Made rigid and stretched between two chairs, a particularly durable subject gave not an inch when Hypnotist Klein climbed on his stomach...