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Word: stomachful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jean-Claude had no stomach for an all-out campaign of repressive violence to bring the country under control. U.S. officials say he intended to leave Haiti early on the morning of Jan. 31 and even got as far as the airport. The report sparked rumors that he had fled the country and led White House Spokesman Larry Speakes to announce, erroneously, that the Duvaliers had departed. Differing accounts suggest that the President either changed his mind and returned to the palace, or was intercepted by the army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti End of the Duvalier Era | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

Flashy second-line center Bourbeau is the Crimson's second-leading scorer and the spark to the hosts' flashy "Killer B" unit. Bourbeau tore a stomach muscle over a week ago in the first Beanpot game, and although he played last weekend at Princeton, he missed the Beanpot consolation. Bourbeau did not practice yesterday, and his injury will probably keep him out this weekend, as well...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Icemen Prepare For Cornell War Tonight | 2/14/1986 | See Source »

...pilgrimage to Destin beach. Around this time every year, the diets began. Bananas only the first day; then strawberries the next, then apples the next. But at the beach, you could finally drink and eat potato chips--unless it started showing--and fast for the next day until your stomach was flat...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: Diet Dementia | 2/13/1986 | See Source »

...over the breasts, the sleeves are full." The image of a scarlet nun seems appropriate to her role in this strange new society. Once a month, during the Ceremony, Offred has sex with her Commander. She lies between the legs of the Commander's wife, "my head on her stomach, her pubic bone under the base of my skull, her thighs on either side of me." All three participants in this ritual are fully clothed. Offred knows that if a child is conceived and born healthy, not an Unbaby or a "shredder," the wife will raise it. She endures these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Repressions of a New Day the Handmaid's Tale | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...memory, absentmindedness, lack of appetite, palpitation, shortness of breath, headache, dimmed vision, mental decline." Girls, Be Vigilant! helpfully lists some of the traditional remedies for illicitly roaming hands, including the cultivation of a "rhythmically arranged life" and good habits such as avoiding tight clothes and not sleeping on your stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Some Stirrings on the Mainland | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

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