Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...split burst into the open, then begged his superiors to give Tito's government the encouragement and limited support it needed to keep the rebellion thriving, without buying Tito's own party line. But Cannon had worked himself into a state of exhaustion and a case of stomach ulcers. Last week he packed his bags and headed homeward for a rest and a new assignment...
...fashion in finishes was once fire or flood, but recently the doomsters have gone atomic or bacteriological. Stewart is a measles man-"super-measles"-but he has no stomach to describe the death agonies he inflicts...
...taking up other items of her examination, she stumbled through an account of the history of Japan from 1875 to 1905, explained the functioning of an eardrum and expounded her ideas on the philosophical principles of mathematics. When it was over she tremblingly left the room and, whispering "My stomach aches," took her place with other waiting youngsters...
Eighteen-year-old Denise Chambon was one victim of the annual bac (baccalaureate exam) and trac (student term for butterflies in the stomach) that thousands of French youths (and anxious parents) suffer through each fall. Looming at the end of seven years of intensive secondary schooling, the bac orals are the big hurdle for French schoolgirls and boys. To the 65% who pass, success means a bachot certificate and eligibility for entrance to a university or employment in many civil service and professional jobs effectively closed to non-baccalaureates...
...girls pick their major. If they want, they can take a dose of child psychology and attend lectures on the problems of marriage. But most girls seem to want something more. As Junior Callie Huger puts it: "I want to broaden my mind, not just my husband's stomach...