Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mosquitoes carry the protozoa on their stomach linings and in their salivary glands. While in the mosquito the protozoa are in the sexual phase of their cycle; man's blood stream is the home of the asexual phases. In an active case of malaria a patient's blood teems with asexual forms which multiply in the red blood cells, burst out bringing poisons with them. A few sexual forms of protozoa are produced in the human body, but they cannot multiply sexually unless a mosquito carries them off, thus completing the cycle...
...Matthew Nelson, forgot themselves and went out on the town. At 10 o'clock Stewart dragged Nelson home drunk. The others' faces went grim; they reached for their pistols. They sat Nelson up on a sofa, beat his head with butt and barrel. Stewart, sick at his stomach with fear, slipped to the bathroom, jumped out the window, ran away...
...Johnson made of himself at his inauguration as Vice President, but the documented fact that he was no habitual drunkard is underlined in the film by a letter to him from Lincoln: "You ornery old galoot; don't you know better than to drink brandy on an empty stomach, particularly when you are ill? . . .In hitting at you they're hitting at me and I don't mind...
...Several clams stood 25 Ib. before their shells, not their muscles, broke. One oyster withstood a 3-lb. pull for five days before opening one-fiftieth of an inch, for eight days before opening a quarter of an inch (a tight squeeze for even a hungry starfish's stomach...
...past two months the center of the military world has been, for most U.S. newspaper readers,* North Africa. Delays that readers might have condoned at any other time they could not stomach now. So when North African news lacked timetable punctuality, and then was sporadic and stuttery when it came, they felt cheated...