Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officers and men who have lived and worked in Churchill, the problems of large-scale Arctic war still seem almost insurmountable. Even if the cold could be licked, the difficulties of transport and supply would remain, and an Arctic army, like any other, must travel on its stomach. Dr. Omond M. Solandt, head of Canada's Defense Research Board, put it this way: "Today everybody knows it's impossible to fight a war in the Arctic, but we have to prepare for the man who doesn't know it's impossible...
...Manhattan because he was still in short pants. He went to work on the old New York Herald and the Evening Post as an illustrator and left, at 22, to sail for Europe with only $150 in his pocket. He studied art and sipped vermouth on an empty stomach in Paris, then came back home to the Eagle...
...conviction of the film. The actors are uniformly excellent and restrained; the direction is good, except for its unintentional lapses into 'Ninotchka' mockery, revealing the risible elements of any dogma-swallowing people; the photography is just right. I found myself frequently on the edge of my seat with stomach tingling, like it used to do when, as a kid, I saw the 'Dracula' films...
...took the parcel and carried it into the living room. It was addressed to Roy, but he opened it. It contained a volume of Shakespeare. Rex probably never saw it, for it exploded as he undid it, tearing open his stomach and maiming his hands. As Rex lay dying in the hospital later, he asked: "Am I dying like a Farran?" His last words were: "No revenge...
Physicians have failed to find a satisfactory way of permanently curing peptic (stomach) ulcers, said the University of California's Theodore Althausen. The standard treatment (bland diet) temporarily cures 90% of the cases; but 10% to 36% develop ulcers again within six months after the "cure," from 46% to 93% within five years...