Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rhoda Wenger was fed through nasal tubes. To find foods that her stomach would accept, dietitians tried everything: vitamins in liquid form, juices, beef broth. Sometimes the formula was changed several times...
...upheaval too. It was twelve years ago that gabby James J. Dykes blew a smoke ring, calmly stabbed it with a pudgy forefinger and became manager of the Chicago White Sox. Since then he has averaged 15 cigars a day, and six seasons in the second division, and got stomach trouble worrying along his mediocre players. After the White Sox lost their 10th game in 13 last week, Jimmy Dykes quit under pressure. His successor: 45-year-old Ted Lyons, the Sox's veteran Sunday pitcher (TIME, April...
...worth doing well"-soon discovered that life with Kimberly and Maag was the nearest thing to hell on earth. In the rare intervals when he was not being Evans-ridden, desperate Partner Kimberly, who is The Hucksters' most enjoyable character, frenziedly dulled his stomach ulcers with benzedrine, double-Scotches, expensive prostitutes, and psychiatrists. "My psychiatrist tells me I'm a sex-maniac," he told Vic sadly; "but I told him that I doubted if bulls and rabbits had Oedipus complexes." Vic Norman was puzzled by this remark: "I must have missed a line," he said. "No, I [missed...
Then and Now is a story built around the events of those few months. His Machiavelli is by no means the wicked Old Nick after whom the Devil himself is said to be named. He is a wary, humorous, thoughtful lecher with stomach trouble, who spends most of his free time worrying about how (and if) he is going to keep an assignation with a lady named Aurelia. During business hours he proves to be an astute, hard-working Florentine spy. He admires Borgia's ruthless audacity, but always from a diplomatic distance...
...strike had approached the proportions of the British general strike of 1926, which had boomeranged on labor. He would not wanf that. There was a point beyond which he did not care-or dare-to go, which he had carefully calculated. He fed on discontent but he had no stomach for disruption...