Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a bad heart and a queasy stomach, Andrew Jackson May of Kentucky looked remarkably fit when his trial began last April. For a man on trial for conspiracy to defraud the Government, he was amazingly full of bluster. For a onetime chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, he was in the company of unsavory codefendants: the mysterious brothers Garsson,* owners of a shadowy wartime munitions empire. But Andy May was an amazing...
...Next biggest group are the severely neurotic (about 2,500,000)-who are often dynamic, successful men & women. The neurotic may even be pretty good life-insurance risks, unless they are prone to hypertension or stomach ulcers. Constantly worrying (presumably about their insurance premiums, among other things), they tend to "live long and unhappily...
...American women divide their whole body in two parts; from the top to the waist is stomach; from there to the foot is ankles...
...learning process is a sort of photographic brain capable of almost total recall. Pressagent Dick Maney believes that Billy remembers every good gag he has ever heard: "When I first knew Billy, he had only one figure of speech-everything was like the inside of Earl Carroll's stomach. Then it got so I could tell who he'd been out with the night before by the way he talked...
...Chen Li-fu is corrupt." Nobody ever has. Says Chen: "The real problem is not corruption but the economic crisis springing out of our long period of war, just as the American Civil War gave birth to a period of low public morality. Confucius said, 'Without a full stomach one cannot speak of high principles.' . . ." Chen adds: "When man's natural desires are sufficiently satisfied, he can be turned from the temptations of jazz, debauchery, goods and profits...