Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a few words, a knowing nod and a confidential elbow-push in the stomach, he convinced many a jittery second-rater that he was really a wildcat. His persuasiveness worked the other way, too. Johnston once whispered to mighty Jess Willard: "Jess, you killed a man in your last fight. . . . I just thought I'd warn you, my boy has a bad heart...
Other Eskimo notions were equally disconcerting to Campbell. When seals are killed, the Eskimos remove the eyes and swallow them so the animal cannot watch itself being skinned. The first time Campbell went on a walrus hunt, it all but turned his stomach to see a native gulping down handfuls of live maggots from the carcass. Once he tried a live worm from a slaughtered caribou, and found it most disagreeable...
...Stomach Pains. In Boston, iS-month-old Thomas Ethier added the plastic bookbinding he had swallowed to the Children's Hospital's collection of pins, pebbles, teeth, political campaign buttons and other knickknacks removed from young larynges, esophagi and bronchial tubes...
...view of the ruins of bombed-out towns, the ill-dressed people. At one stop they looked across the platform at a dingy line of boxcars, jammed with German women and children returned from Silesia, shabby and impassive in defeat. Said one wife: "This makes me sick at my stomach. Not out of sympathy. It's civilization eating itself...
...permission of the copyright owner, Chappell & Co., Ltd. *An A.P.H. anecdote: Once, when Lady Astor scolded a crapulous and corpulent M.P. for "pouring that awful poison into your stomach," he replied: "Madam, I have been drinking this stuff for many years, and I would be glad to put my stomach against yours...