Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drawing may be noted briefly. It is a portrait, on page 21, of two obese rodents of an unidentifiable species. One lies flat on its stomach and look despondently downward; the other sits upright, its lifeless paws hanging limply over an expanse of white paunch, looking at the reader with a stony gaze of rather appalling fixity. I don't know exactly what they are, lemmings, perhaps, meditating the future, or maybe some sort of crazed marsupials planning to take over the world and not very pleased at the propects...
Every Child Knows. At last, the Russian representative lays aside his paper with respectful attention: curly-headed Communist Bruno Baum takes the floor. He is the only one of the gathering who looks well-fed; his jowls are heavy and his stomach folds over his belt. Briskly, he assails the Western powers for "looting" Berlin and denounces-with no supporting proof-removal of its factories to the Western zones. All but the Communists guffaw. But Bruno perorates bravely: "We must defend the workers of Berlin whose factories and jobs are being stolen from them." In the bored silence that follows...
...cabin near the Sikanni River in Northern British Columbia, Trapper John Pich, 38, lay abed. Two days before he had eaten tainted food. Now his belly was bloated and he was in mortal agony. Primitive John Pich thought he would die if the poison was not taken from his stomach...
Trapper Pich took up his eight-inch hunting knife, plunged it into his belly. He groped for his stomach, could not find it. Because he knew he must die unless he got help, he staggered across the cabin to his rifle, went to the door, fired three shots-the S 0 S of the wild...
...chose a Japanese-American named Yasuo Kuniyoshi, who ranks among the top dozen U.S. artists. For the painter, the exhibition was a test as well as a tribute. Would his life work, spread out on the walls, seem worth the effort it represented? "I had a butterfly in my stomach," Kuniyoshi confessed last week, "just thinking about...