Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intelligence was mediocre, overworked at school to get good marks, and developed imitative heart trouble. In contrast, Mrs. Q considered Agnes "dumb," the symbol of her own failure in life. Result: Agnes stayed timidly at home, rarely spoke up, refused to eat - partly in imitation of her parents' stomach troubles, partly to get attention...
...execute every order fully and on time, and report on his mission, in proper form. Never having needed an alibi himself, Krueger will take none from others. His inspections are searching, and reflect his deep regard for those vital instruments of war, the combat infantryman's feet and stomach. There is no excuse, he holds, for poorly cooked chow, and many a G.I. who had heard of Krueger as a tough, tyrannical ogre has been better fed after a Krueger visit to the company mess. If he sees a G.I. limping, Krueger wants to know why. If the trouble...
...those who could stomach it, there was a wonderful medical-art show on view last week in Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library. Its 162 meticulous, gruesome pictures represented the work of about half of the nation's 50 professional medical artists. There was a portrait of an 89-pound tumor shortly after removal, a thorax without any viscera, a woman being skin-grafted after removal of her breast...
...retired beyond ack-ack range and hung around to plot the Japs' course for the Mitchell medium bombers and Thunderbolt fighters then taking off from Mindoro. At 7 p.m. the air-sea battle was on. U.S. air attacks spoiled the Japs' gunnery and left them with no stomach for slow bombardment runs which might have inflicted serious damage on Mindoro installations. Instead, while being chivvied from the air, the Japs steamed up & down the coast, taking pot shots as they went, doing negligible damage ashore...
...using his standard method of confusing and frightening the animals by sudden blasts of air in their cages, he got a group of 16 cats into such a state of nerves that some of them even recoiled from a caged mouse. Then he gave them alcohol by injection or stomach tube. It quickly cured their jitters. They went back into their cages and, despite their alcoholic befuddlement, they boldly tackled and opened food boxes they had been taught to fear. Submissive cats took food away from domineering ones...