Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...YORK--Overcoming serious stomach cramps and extreme heat and humidity, Orlando Pizzolato, a little-known 26-year-old distance runner from Italy, scored a stunning upset victory in the New York City Marathon yesterday...
...PLAYWRIGHT Moliere, to whom Shklar often turns in her book, wrote that men die less from their illnesses than from the remedies prescribed. Amidst this age's fearful complexity, many of us look for the easier nooks of community, authority and perfectibility. We have neither the stomach, nor sensibility, for Shklar's patient subtlety. She survives her choice over cruelty, but the book lives as an ambiguous challenge to our certainties...
...millions of airline passengers have discovered to their sorrow, the terms rush hour and gridlock no longer apply only to travel by car. This summer, teeth-grinding, stomach-wrenching waits at major airports have become distressingly common. The aggravation reached a new and irritating high last month, as flight delays increased 276% over a year ago, to 44,372. Nearly one in ten airline trips was more than 15 minutes late...
...This is an integrated curriculum. Nothing is taught in blocks, such as anatomy. You don't just take a course in anatomy--you study a case. In learning about the disease in a particular case, you learn the anatomy of the heart or the stomach," Litchard added...
...description of the incident however is a good example of what sometimes makes the book hard to stomach. His flip sense of the absurd made him a good quote but hurts him as a narrator. Selling Carbo hurt him deeply but he tells the story for laughs...