Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PHILADELPHIA--About 15 minutes into Harvard's contest with Penn Saturday, every Crimson player must have felt a sickening emptiness in his stomach--not pain exactly, just the physical manifestation of dread...
Rosalynn met her husband at the helipad when he arrived in Plains. When he told her the grim news, she was incredulous. She spent the rest of the morning fighting to maintain control, looking as if she had been hit in the stomach with a sandbag. On the flight to Washington after voting in Plains, they were finally alone in their forward cabin. They broke down together and cried...
Veterinarians blame the stomach bleeding on nervous exhaustion brought on by modern technology. Once the Lapps herded the animals by skiing alongside them and crooning soothing songs. Now they use helicopters, snowmobiles and motorcycles, and the animals become spooked by noise. Though no one has yet suggested that the Lapps be made to return to skis, there is concern that machine-caused stress may affect the quality of reindeer meat, which retails for $5.68 per lb. With costlier herding techniques, prices would be even higher. That could increase stress, at least among those who buy the delicacy...
...city that takes its stomach seriously: the native hearth of Breyers and Basatt's ice cream, and, of course, Tasty-cake. People have laughed at Philly but never at Tastycakes...
...leaves are frazzled and fraying now, the hues of mid-fall gone. But a trace of the brilliance remains, enough to stir the stomach. New Hampshire retains its quaint mystique, the facade that the media and the politicos penetrate in February of every leap year. Something intangible, but pervasive, emanates from this state of towns carved from foothills. It draws the curious observer, and so eight months after the primary, the search begins anew...