Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world-it took nearly three months for the full story to reach the U.S. Present at the enthronement was the Rev. Victor Guy Plymire, a longtime American missionary. After patiently waiting through eight hours of ceremony and gift-giving (the presents ranged from precious silver ornaments to a sheep stomach filled with butter), Missionary Plymire was finally permitted to take a picture (see cut) of the new Lama, six-year-old Tuteng Tueh...
Hochschild, called "Don Mauricio" by his well-wishers, is a big, bland man of 62 with a big, bald head, heavy brown eyebrows. He eats hugely, spills cigar ashes on his stomach, claims a stock of 2,000 jokes in various languages. He is charitable to nuns, priests, refugee Jews, and likes to hand out expensive Havana cigars as if they were calling cards...
...when this is over." On the main floor he again refused to budge. The soldiers hoisted him up, carried him past a handful of startled clerks in the lobby, and down the main steps. His grey hair unruffled, his blue suit coat buttoned, his hands folded benignly across his stomach, his eyes half-closed, Avery looked every inch an Oriental potentate being borne by slaves...
...Favorite sleeping position: on the stomach. About half of the women said they slept with an arm or leg hanging over the edge...
During the next year Hopkins spent more weeks at Mayo's. His trouble seemed to be that his stomach simply would not digest food; osmosis would not take place unless he took medicine that added acid to his stomach. So long as he took his medicines, he kept going. But on trips he often forgot. After the London and Moscow Conferences in 1941, he had to be rushed to the Naval Hospital in Bethesda. He returned from Teheran and Cairo worn down and sniffling, went to Florida to rest, wound up last week in Rochester...