Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to TIME, Murphy began quietly with: "Let's see if we can't apply reason and not emotion." Then, later: "Let us suppose one of your children is apprehended in the kitchen with jam on his face. We don't have to get a stomach pump to find out if he's been eating jam. We have the jam on his face." Finally, referring to Hiss: "Inside that smiling face is a heart black and cancerous...
...Stomach pump, hell-I demand an autopsy...
Hearst's Chicago Herold-American made the most of this opportunity to catch the "torturers" redhanded. Its headlines: FLAUNT PET TORTURE AT DOG SHOW! VISITORS SICKEN AT CRUEL SIGHT. A picture of a dog named Fluffy, which had a tube connecting its stomach to a pouch collecting gastric juices, was captioned: "In helpless torment, deprived of even the relief of barking a protest, Fluffy can only gasp in grip of [the University of Chicago's] Dr. N. R. Brewer." Another picture on the same page showed a dog on which a prostate operation had been performed. The Hearst...
...most Westpointed U.S. officers commanding the temperamental De Lattre, he was hard to stomach. He had a supreme disregard for carefully planned strategy. (Says he: "The battle of the Marne was not won by a committee or a plan.") At one point during the fighting, the U.S. command ordered him to fall back to a new line, evacuate Strasbourg; he flatly refused. Another time, he attacked Ulm against instructions because Napoleon had captured...
...buildup was satisfying and 19,000 people paid $108,000 to get into Los Angeles' Wrigley Field. The question was whether it would be a show or a contest. Champion Williams had beaten Bolanos twice before-but the second time Williams had absorbed a stomach pounding and had won on a split decision. Last week there seemed to be an outside chance that Bolanos, an earnest, resourceful fighter, might tag Williams with a damaging shot or shade him on points...