Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King Solomon, who wrote songs about a love so strong that it made his stomach ache, was well aware that a man's emotions can make him sick. Not all of Solomon's wisdom has been forgotten. Last week, at the American College of Physicians' annual meeting in Chicago, 3,500 U.S. doctors heard, among other reports, some specific examples of how sick a man can be if he gets too wrought up over things...
Violent and prolonged anger can play havoc with body tissues, said Dr. Harold G. Wolff of Cornell Medical College. A furious man - or even a peevish one who constantly takes umbrage - gets too much blood in his stomach walls; if he stays angry too long, ulcers may result. The fury or sulking fits aroused by threats to a man's life or his love, said Dr. Wolff, sometimes affects his nose: it may swell up and hurt. A "mad" nose, caught with its resistance down, is easy prey to colds and other infections...
...Ford Madox Ford-a lively old Briton who loved to reminisce about his experiences in World War I. "It was in No Man's Land," Ford would say reflectively: "We were making a night attack. I had gone ahead to reconnoiter. I was crawling along on my-er-stomach when suddenly, above the roar of battle, I heard a sound-it was larks singing. Then I looked up and saw that it was light as day. From the bursting shells, y'know. The larks had seen the light and thought it was morning...
Zimmerman's assertions, not calculated to cheer the life insurance societies or the honor grades man, was that tension and cagerness to get ahead mean less time to get there. Cracking one more book today is cracking the stomach lining of tomorrow, he suggests...
...from home and his harsh stepfather. He became a bum and was first caged in a Hawaiian mental hospital. There he was greeted by a burly attendant who looked him over, observed: "We get it over with," and doubled up the new patient with a hard punch to the stomach...