Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seat of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., who is off at the war. (Saltonstall's '14 friend, Sinclair Weeks, was handpicked by the Governor to warm Lodge's place until the election in November.) At 51, Leverett Saltonstall's political eyes are not bigger than his stomach. But as a shrewd Yankee, he never discounts the possibility that a platter might be handed...
Harry Hopkins, 53, was back at Mayo's for the third time in seven years, for his second major stomach operation. The first came in 1937. Specialists concluded that he had worried himself into gastric ulcers as WPAdministrator. Mayo's removed a portion of the Hopkins' stomach, doubted his chances of recovery. He suffered on, somehow. Then, in 1938, the President called in Army & Navy doctors, who experimented for a year with novel drugs. When Hopkins finally pulled through, no one was certain which drug-if any-had turned the trick. (That was WPA's toughest...
...clock.the Duce's stomach ulcers could stand no more. The household gathered for supper. Afterward, the man who once said, "I shall make my life a masterpiece" browsed in a book, chatted quietly. Punctually at 10, he shuffled...
...good war picture is a fine thing to see, but one which is obviously a large piece of Hollywoodized propaganda is difficult to stomach. Perhaps it's the monotony of seeing one atrocity after another dragging its bloody stump across the screen, but this corner just thinks the show is poorer than average...
Major General Schwengel's plan, which had the industry's blessing, sounded dazzlingly simple, and fine for the U.S. stomach, which has lately been assaulted by more & more rotgut.* The plan: that U.S. distillers should buy 50,000,000 gallons of Cuban cane alcohol at 80? a gal. They would resell this to the Government at 50? a gal. in exchange for permission to withdraw 35,000,000 gal. of good U.S. grain alcohol at 90? a gal. and to turn it into good U.S. prewar-style potables. This was supposed 1) to add at least...