Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trumpet" because she has become one of Berlin's toughest, most vocal anti-Communist delegates. A resolution defying Sokolovsky's order was passed; but below, the mob was waiting for the "traitors." While Red army men and Russian policemen watched, Communist thugs closed in. They pounded the stomach and back of Socialist Otto Bach until he had a hemorrhage. Said Jeanette, who had been put in a concentration camp by the Nazis for being Jewish: "They are mad. This is 1933 all over again." She, too, was beaten, but got away...
Something or Nothing. White-faced and nervous, faced with a critical and hostile Assembly, Bidault showed little stomach for the job. The deputies would not hear from him "either expressions of enthusiasm or excuses"; it was "a case of getting something or taking nothing." His voice drooping, Bidault reviewed his major defeats and minor victories. He had failed to have the Ruhr cut off from Germany. He had failed to sell the French program of a loose federation of German states as the political structure of the new Germany. Worst of all, perhaps, he had failed to get sufficient guarantees...
...piece of Communist propaganda recently miscarried. Even Italian Communists couldn't stomach the stick sentimentality of a Russian propaganda movie. It showed a Russian airman ready to die in glory while Comrade Stalin, over the radio, urged him to live on. Interrupted Italian comrades" We want Walt Disney...
...doctors knew more about what goes on inside a man's head, they might be able to do more about diseases. But they have never had a window-in-the-head to match the window-in-the-stomach that one Alexis St. Martin once gave them.* Last week, after four years' experimenting, University of Pennsylvania Physiologist Seymour S. Kety, 32, thought he had the next best thing: a way of testing the brain's blood as it comes & goes...
...After St. Martin got a hole in his stomach from a shotgun blast in 1822, he lived 58 years, to the great profit of medical researchers. A doctor put food directly into his stomach through a flap, and got a close-up picture of digestion...