Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says, "probably wouldn't be happy here." Ride clearly was. She enjoyed flights in NASA's two-seat T-38 trainers so much that she went on to get her private pilot's license. She threw herself enthusiastically into parachute training, scuba diving and even stomach-churning flights aboard a NASA KC-135 transport, whose high-speed arcs gave the Ascans a brief, exhilarating taste of weightlessness...
...client is furious. If he values his job, he had better have a good explanation. And, by the way, he can forget about taking a vacation this summer. The man eyes a paperweight on his desk and longs to throw it at his oppressor. Instead, he sits down, his stomach churning, his back muscles knotting, his blood pressure climbing. He reaches for a Maalox and an aspirin and has a sudden yearning for a dry martini, straight...
...right on pace [to break the record] but his stomach couldn't handle it," said Alan Cohen, foods co-chairman for the event, in the Daily Collegian, the Penn State student newspaper...
...shopping malls and Sunday school. In Houston's huge and hectic Tex as Children's Hospital, Eric, comforted by a Han Solo toy, endures daily blood drawings from his hands, spinal taps, radiation and chemotherapy. Although ravaged by treatment, the boy adapts better than his father. "His stomach protruding, his head bald," writes the horrified Pringle, "he now believes he looks just like his grandfather...
...months and 46,500 uneventful miles at sea. Suddenly Captain Robert J. Kelly, at the helm of the carrier U.S.S. Enterprise and a mere 1,700 yds. from voyage's end in San Francisco Bay, felt what he called "a very deep feeling in the pit of my stomach." His 1,123-ft.-long, 75,700-ton nuclear-powered vessel had veered out of its 42-ft.-deep channel and slid to a stop in 29 ft. of water...