Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shoulders were as broad as a fullback's, Helen discovered that she didn't have the resistance to practice from 9 to 5. When she could afford them, Helen began stuffing herself with potatoes and fattening desserts, gained 25 Ibs. in one year. As her chest and stomach got rounder and fuller, so did her voice. "I gave up any idea of being svelte." She laughs louder than anyone at jokes about her massiveness. Now she weighs...
Bitter Ender. In Brentwood, England, doctors prepared wisecracking William Parr for an operation, rejoiced to think ;hat the anesthetic would silence his quips, :found "This Side Up" printed across his jared stomach...
Cashed In. In San Francisco, an autopsy on Oscar, a trained seal, found in his stomach: 514 pennies, 27 nickels, eight dimes, one quarter, two tokens...
...Columbia in 1931. He wore impeccably cut blue pin-stripe suits-the best I saw in all Russia-smoked Lucky Strikes and talked with crisp, good-humored confidence. Since his job is the running of all industry in the Ukraine, it was hardly surprising that he suffered from stomach ulcers. When he was away for treatment at a sanatorium in the Caucasus, Khomyak had a good deal of difficulty in getting quick decisions out of the rest of the Council ('They just shoved my memos under their desk blotters'), but when Senin got back to town, the memos...
...women, rich and poor, black and white, young and old. Of course he met men who seemed not to want knowledge. . . . He also met men who seemed not to want food. But ... by nature [man] has to eat-and he has to learn. If he stops eating, his stomach shrinks, his body gets thin, his face gets pale. If he stops learning, his mind shrinks, his thoughts get thin, his talk gets pale-and boring...