Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican Thomas E. Dewey leading the field with 53% of the votes to 37% for Bennett and 10% for the American Labor Party's Dean Alfange, who claimed to be "the only New Deal candidate." But the same poll showed that many a stanch Republican who could not stomach ambitious Tom Dewey was swinging into the Bennett camp-on the theory that a vote for Bennett was also a vote against Roosevelt. The only way Franklin Roosevelt could really help Jack Bennett was to sway labor's votes away from Alfange, without disturbing the Republican cross current...
...daring and humor, of the Navyman's good-natured contempt for the Army and respect for its leader. Aboard the PTs, gold braid and oak leaves, drenched with roaring spray, were not in their element. "I noticed a figure by the machine-gun turret," says Kelly. "His stomach was long ago empty, but he was leaning forward, retching between his knees." Kelly told a quartermaster to help him below, got the answer: "The general says he doesn't want to move, sir-he knows what's best for him." Even the lone admiral aboard was horrified...
...shot Ben in the stomach, in the ribs and in the groin...
Somewhere I'll Find You (M.G.M.) is a farewell piece for Clark Gable, now a corporal in the Army Air Forces at Miami Beach. If he lacked stomach for the job (he has made no other picture since the death of his wife, Carole Lombard, in a plane crash last spring), he tries manfully to conceal the fact, does more than his share in turning out a typical Gable show, loud, expert, witty, rough...
Commercials of the stomach-turning variety got a good going-over last week from a listener with a sensitive stomach and a big audience. In Reader's Digest, Robert Littell protested against broadcast ads which made "some stranger's gizzards come bounding right into the room." He called such commercials "plug-uglies" and announced the formation of the outraged order of Plug Shrinkers...