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Word: stomachful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first bargain retailers and lately one of the fastest growing, does not have customers; it has addicts. Says one shopper, a woman who works for a New York advertising agency: "When I miss a week, I feel as though I've missed out on something. My stomach gets tight and I feel sick." Lauren Bacall, in her autobiography, By Myself, cites Loehmann's nine times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Momma's Legacy | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...intiation itself consisted of about 40 men in their undershorts in the small cement-floored Pi basement being fed shots of whiskey and vodka as well as the notorious beer bong, which shoots a large volume of the hops straight into the indulger's stomach. Initiates never had a chance: the first casualties arrived at University Health Services (UHS) less than two hours after the festivities began. Members dispensing penalty shots for various imagined transgressions quickly got the initiates roaring drunk. Spilled beer and vomit made walking hazardous. One participatant lost his front teeth falling on the slick floor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Too Serious To Ignore | 10/25/1983 | See Source »

...Boston the gravest inequality is economic, not racial. Accordingly, he tries not to pander to conventional white prejudices. His mother and tubercular father were on the dole for several years, he says, and so loose talk about " 'welfare chiselers' and 'welfare cheats' makes my stomach turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boston Wins by a Landslide | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...violent stop. Prisoners armed with smuggled guns and homemade knives had already overpowered their guards; now they commandeered the vehicle. Thirty-eight men, who had been waiting for the van for more than an hour, piled inside; one of them pointed a gun at the driver's stomach. The van gingerly retraced its path toward the prison's main gate. There the escaping inmates outnumbered the guards 4 to 1. A prison officer, who realized what was happening, swerved his car across the entrance. Another, James Ferris, 43, struggled with the prisoners who had streamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland: The I.R.A.'s Great Escape | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

...Chief of the Supreme High Command Wilhelm Keitel. Rudolf Hess, now officially pronounced an amnesia victim, was the most morose-looking of all, his green-tinged skin drawn tightly about his cadaverous skull. He tried to pass the time by reading Bavarian folk tales, but was much disturbed by stomach cramps, which made him rock back & forth on his bench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport 1945: Branch Breaks the Ice, Hires Jackie Robinson As Shortstop | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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