Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain getting enough to eat? Yes-according to a scientific definition of "enough." But the common man's stomach rumbles a frequent dissent. The British diet may be adequate, but the drab, monotonous stuff that Britons have been eating for six years leaves half of them (according to a Gallup poll) feeling underfed...
...exciting. If not, the time for worrying would come soon enough The average citizen still had money, and his wife still had some perfume and a permanent wave. As the clock struck twelve he would probably think of a fine way of toasting the future and toning up his stomach...
...face of the haggis (ground heart, liver, lights, suet, onions, boiled with oatmeal in a sheep's stomach bag), many a blithe spirit bolted, to watch Montreal's "social" regiment, the Black Watch, execute an eightsome reel, or dance to the music of Eddie Alexander's orchestra...
Rudolf Hess, now officially pronounced an amnesia victim, was the most morose-looking of all, his green-tinged skin drawn tightly about his cadaverous skull. He tried to pass the time by reading a book of Bavarian folk tales, but was much disturbed by stomach cramps, which made him rock back & forth on his bench. (Unimpressed, his U.S. doctor advised him to keep rocking.) The only display of what the Germans call Galgenhumor (humor of the gallows) came from ex-Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach. Said he, as he was served dinner in his cell: "If the victuals continue...
...with the pendulum regularity so often seen among psychoneurotics as 20th-century civilization reached its brilliant apogee. Her grimed, lined face suggested that of a ravaged Nefertiti,-and she gazed upon the general obliteration with the self-conscious superiority of the implacable progressive. At her feet, sprawled on her stomach, Carrie Chapman Katz was devouring a book and the gristle on an uncooked thighbone. Both women were completely bald-the result of radioactivity. They were also in the last stages of hysterical fatigue, for day & night they had to fight off assault waves of rats, whose fecundity seemed...