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Word: stomachful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Handy Andy | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Importance of Being Neurotic | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...American women divide their whole body in two parts; from the top to the waist is stomach; from there to the foot is ankles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In the Passionless U. S. | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Busy Heart | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chih-k'o on Roller Skates | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

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