Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week this machine-age approach got Mrs. Cordova into trouble. Three of her best clients complained about her work to District Attorney James T. Burke. One aggrieved man with a "stomach misery" said he had paid her $60, had drunk a quart of mysterious liquid every three days for five months without any sign of improvement. Another had given her $25 to slap a hex on an undesirable daughter-in-law. The damned thing hadn't worked. Neither had a $40 wife-luring...
...Tremendous [cigaret] campaigns are concocted out of nothingness. . . . Nostrums, patent medicines . . . stomach and head soothers . . . speak their own brand of falsehoods . . . through joke and jingle...
...Veterans Administration Hospital. The corridors were cheerless, the windows dirty. His lunch of filet of sole, peas, rice, cole slaw and lemon pie was cold by the time it got to him, but filling nevertheless. Lying in bed, naked to the waist, Boucouvales gazed down at his full stomach. His belly was getting so big, he told the nurses, he ought to be switched to the maternity ward...
Surgeon de Souza cleansed the nose, pared the edges, which had already begun to wither, made a circular cut in the patient's abdomen, buried the nose under four layers of tissue, then sewed up the incision. To Rio newsmen he explained that: 1) stomach tissues would provide better nourishment; 2) if the nose had become contaminated, it was easier to fight infection in the abdomen...
Unending afflictions qualified 36-year old Teppe as the prophet of "implacable pessimism." As a child he was constantly ill and morose. He lost the sight of an eye in his 20s in a way no doctor could explain. Since then he has been plagued by rheumatism, sciatica, asthma, stomach ailments, severe headaches, and extreme insomnia. Dressed in pallbearer black, he drags out his days on a birdlike diet of bread crusts and boiled vegetables, in a barren, unheated apartment, aggressively campaigning to stimulate public interest in despondency.* Teppe has even offered a prize for the best Dolorist novel...