Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Osama told of the folk remedies used to ward off Israel's punitive measures: onions for the eyes, lemons for the stomach to counter the effect of tear gas. There is no remedy for the rubber bullets, which burn the skin and sometimes break bones. The day before, Osama noted, soldiers threw rocks at the shabab from their helicopters. When it gets too rough, he said, "we run away for a while, then get together again to wait for the next time...
...John Murphy, a sweet-skating, hard-shooting, Crimson forward has been feeding his teammates nicely. But his goals-scored column has an empty stomach...
...agents convicted in the 1985 sinking of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland, New Zealand. A Greenpeace photographer died in the blast. Mafart, who was to be confined to the French atoll of Hao until 1989, was flown to Paris on Dec. 14 to be treated for a stomach disorder. French officials say they will decide what to do with Mafart after medical tests are completed...
...says Frederick Machmer, U.S. AID chief in Addis Ababa, "it is the fact that the U.S. public would be very angry if we didn't give food aid to the Ethiopians." To Brother Gus, an Irish missionary who works in Addis Ababa, the matter is simple. "If you can stomach thousands of children dying for lack of food because you don't like the government, that is your problem," he says. "My problem is to try to feed them all, children, the parents, the aged, the young, wherever they...
...Such stomach-churning domestic violence is a major cause of serious injury to American women each year. An estimated 2 million to 4 million women are beaten by husbands or boyfriends, more than are hurt in auto accidents, rapes or muggings. The FBI says that every four days a woman is beaten to death by a man she knows well. Despite comfortable stereotypes, the victims are hardly limited to uneducated or disadvantaged women. Many are from society's upper echelons. At least 10% of professional men beat their wives. One well-to-do victim: Charlotte Fedders, author of the recently...