Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Left. By the late Carl Meeker, 67, Los Angeles railroad fireman: his stomach; to science. Ballyhooed after a 1917 ulcer operation as the possessor of a transplanted goat's stomach, he had the last laugh on medicos, who found that their legacy was only human after...
...with 1,000 German troops being relieved at Oslo and replaced by fresh troops from Germany. The sight of well-fed Germans hanging out of train windows, yoohooing at Swedish girls, and carrying packages of food, butter and herrings out of starving Oslo is almost too much to stomach. So much public pressure has built up that a secret session of the Riksdag last week was reported to have considered means of ending the traffic. That problem was the key to the diplomacy by which Sweden has survived so far: by judging when to make concessions-willingly to the Allies...
...quite so peaceful. The roads were strewn with wrecks of cars and tanks, clouds of dust and cordite hung in the air. Five Germans tried to give themselves up to Lang's party, and there was an Axis officer who had just seen his brother shot in the stomach for suggesting surrender. Later two cars flashed past 60 miles an hour, the second firing at the first and someone in the first car shouting his head...
Joseph Davies was off this week on a second mission to Moscow. In his well-packed luggage the rich, Russophile ex-Ambassador to Russia carried enough de hydrated foods of the right kind to humor his delicate stomach (he had rested for three weeks in Boston's Lahey Clinic pre paring for the trip). More important, in his brief case he bore a note whose con tents were known only to Franklin Roosevelt and his secretary, Grace Tully - a note addressed personally to Joseph Stalin...
...When William Beaumont made his famed observations on gastric juice through the window in Alexis St. Martin's stomach, he was a U.S. Army surgeon...