Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hermann Göring supports Doenitz' frequent demands for materials and money, though he is often said to oppose similar demands from Admiral Raeder. Gossip is that the porcine Marshal likes Doenitz because of quick-witted sympathy expressed one day when Herr Göring got his fat stomach caught in the hatch of a U-boat he was about to inspect...
Edsel Ford, 48, was operated on in Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital for a stomach ulcer. His condition was reported "satisfactory...
...that it has long needed for even more effectiveness than at any time since John L. Lewis started building up the C.I.O. on the industrial organization theory of unionization. The craftsmen of the A.F. of L., considering themselves as the skilled aristocrats of labor, have never been able to stomach the idea that the vertical union was here to stay. On their refusal to concede the necessity of industrial organization in order to attain bargaining power in large, mass production factories, has rested the blame for the failure of the half-hearted atempts at combination which labor's two great...
...students the various pressure points on the body where serious bleeding can be stopped, later teach them how to make tourniquets to stanch hemorrhage. For asphyxia and drowning, students are taught artificial respiration. For poisoning, they are given one good old rule of thumb: dilute the contents of the stomach at once by filling the victim with water. Then stick your finger down his throat till he throws...
...battleship captain* had his stomach laid open by a shrapnel burst as he went from conning tower to bridge to direct his ship's fight. He fell to the deck, disdained attempts to lift him to safety, continued to command until the bridge went up in flames. Two officers attempting to save him were themselves saved only after a third officer climbed above the fire, passed a line to an adjoining battleship, another to the trapped men, thus led them to safety...