Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near the crest we saw a wounded lieutenant, with two worried medics. He had been hit in the stomach. "How are you?" one of us said...
...Goddam, I ought to know better," the lieutenant said. "I heard those rockets railroading down on me and I didn't get flat enough. Piece of something hit me in the stomach." He tried to grin...
...proud, slight (105 lb.) man, known professionally as Tom, is the owner of one of the strangest stomachs in existence. This stomach was the subject last week of a book (Human Gastric Function; Oxford University Press; $4.75), by Drs. Stewart Wolf and Harold G. Wolff of Manhattan's New York Hospital. Says famed Physiologist Walter B. Cannon in his foreword: "The functions of the stomach have never been investigated with the detailed care, the skill and ingenuity" that Drs. Wolf & Wolff display in their researches on Tom's stomach...
...Secretary of State Cordell Hull), Franklin Roosevelt raised his glass in a toast to a liberated France, adding: "It is a very great symbol that General Giraud is here tonight. . . ." Yet it seemed to Frenchmen-both Giraudists and Gaullists alike-that the tanned five-star general, who has no stomach for politics, was a virtual prisoner in the U.S., his words censored, his movements circumscribed, his visits outside Washington mysterious...
...pattern in our war against Japan. The suicides obviously were an act of frustration. When the Jap knows he is hopelessly beaten he tries to kill himself, after killing as many of us as he can. But in his anxiety he presses the grenade to his stomach before the plotted time. The ordinary, unreasoning Jap is ignorant. Perhaps he is human. Nothing on Attu indicates...