Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago's Billings Hospital, 97 men & women suffering from severe stomach and intestinal ulcers have submitted during the past three years to a revolutionary operation for their disorder. Its discoverer: Dr. Lester Reynold Dragstedt, gentle, stooped professor of surgery at the University of Chicago Medical School. His operation: opening the patient's chest above the diaphragm, cutting the two vagus nerves where they lead to the stomach and intestines...
...romantic daydreams that crashed over Europe with her flyer husband. Ex-Pugilist Bill Williams bitterly resents his new artificial legs. Robert Mitchum takes to drink, hoping to forget the painful silver plate in his head. Guy Madison, home from the Pacific with a whole skin, is too restless to stomach the unexciting routine of a civilian...
Death came on cue, in the black hours before dawn. Bravura was there, too. Said the dying President of Chile to his Minister of Justice: "How should I die? On my stomach, on my side, or on my back?" For his War Minister he had a smart salute, then, "Adiós, General...
...words long. The curtain rises in 1905, when Kravchenko was born in the Ukraine, son of a railroad worker. After the 1917 revolution, he says, his father exclaimed joyfully: "Now people will be free. It was worth fighting for." But Father soon changed his mind, having "no stomach for dictatorship and terror . . . even under a red flag." Victor, however, joined the Communist Party in 1929. "It seemed to me the greatest event in my life. . . . I was dedicated forever to an ideal and a cause...
...crimes trial has been hard on Hermann Goring's waistline (he is down 80 Ibs. to 190), he is not the only one. In Nürnberg last week the new, free German press emitted a rumbling protest that came from the stomach: its reporters covering the trials were not getting enough to eat. Result: the coverage of the trial had dropped from 15 to three German reporters (Allied newsmen, well-fed, were still at full strength). Exhibit A was German newsman Johann Hammer, who had lost 17 pounds in the past five weeks...