Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Model No. 50. De Strobl used no model for the woman in the Budapest monument ("She came directly from my stomach, as we say in Hungary"), but the Russian below her was modeled from a Red Army trooper-the 50th model that Voroshilov had sent around for approval...
Bright Idea for Polio. Next to a cure, what polio fighters need most is a cheap, quick test. In its early stages, infantile paralysis is hard to diagnose, because the symptoms (fever, headache, upset stomach) may be those of half a dozen childhood ailments. A new drug may seem to work wonders when all the time the patient only had grippe. A new diagnostic test on mice was reported last week in Science by Dr. Pierre R. Lepine, of the Pasteur Institute in Paris. He injects fecal material from suspected polio patients into the brains of five mice. Two days...
Intruder. In Kemalpasa, Turkey, surgeons removed from Arsan Tekkanat's stomach a foot-long snake that had slipped in as he slept with his mouth open...
...bothered by the heat, the humidity and the pace, gave up on the 22nd lap, with three laps to go, and had to be helped off the track. Zatopek himself was grabbing at the right side of his trunks, in obvious pain (he said later that it was a stomach-ache). The crowd of 60,000 cheered him all the way around the track, as he increased his speed, crossed the finish line 19.2 seconds ahead of the great Nurmi's best Olympic time. Zatopek's time: a record 29 minutes, 59.6 seconds...
Without Malarkey. His stomach would begin to churn and his brown eyes got watery and bloodshot. Normally calm and pleasant, he changed into a grouch. Says Mel: "I feel weak-weak as a kitten -when I walk on the field. I feel too tired to warm up, and I don't warm up much. Not as much as other fellows." U.S.C. Coach Dean Cromwell (now head coach of the Olympic track team), who has a reputation for inspiring his athletes with well-chosen malarkey, never goes near...