Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shot, never taking her eyes off me. Then she would sit on signal (too far away to hear), and on the "come" signal fly to me. When she was still 50 feet away I'd signal "down," and she'd drop flat, skidding on her little stomach, and really it made your heart swell to see her. The Colonel reviewed us and I worked Delia as a solo demonstration and she won top honors. . . . She knew it too, and was so proud heeling at my side and prancing like a high-spirited horse. Yesterday was her final test...
...only a small part of Detroit's red-cell residue. Parke, Davis & Co., which does Detroit's blood processing for the Red Cross, developed a way to use the remainder to make peptone-bacteria food ordinarily made from various animal proteins (like hog's stomach, etc.). This new human peptone feeds bacteria cultures grown to make tetanus toxoid, typhoid vaccines and other shots for the armed forces...
...mousetraps. The plants lure their victims by odors, the secretion of nectar and mucilage, the display of bright colors. With few exceptions, the plants have means of digesting their prey.* Enzymes and acids are excreted, and when these are accumulated together with the prey, something like an animal stomach results...
...liver or spleen, pop up to plague a "cured" man months or years afterwards; and a patient who succeeds in becoming completely free of the parasites has no true immunity, is liable to reinfection if an infected mosquito bites him. And there are always some mosquitoes with malarial stomach ulcers threatening the human race in the tropics...
...triggered a steely automatic could caress a first Folio with equal relish. Able to snatch in fifteen minutes the rest most men required a night for, Perelman spent the balance dictating novels (Jo Bracegirdle's Ordeal, The Splendid Sinners), essays (Winnowings, The Anatomy of Gluttony, Turns with a Stomach), plays (Are You There, Wimperis?, Musclebound, Philippa Steps Out), and scenarios (She Married Her Double, He Married Himself). "Retired today to peaceful Erwinna, Pa. Perelman raises turkeys which he occasionally displays on Broadway, stirs little from his alembics and retorts. Those who know hint that the light burning late...