Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These three-inch cylinders are implanted hi a heifer's stomach to at- tract bits of metal that the animal might swallow while eating; the magnet thereby protects the critter's heart and lungs from being punctured. When those same magnets are taped, with positive and negative poles together, on a car's fuel line, they slightly heat the gas so that the engine burns more vapor. Result: four to six miles more on a gallon of gas. At least that is the claim of George Goiri, 48, an Ontario, Ore., storekeeper, who began attaching magnets...
...attacks on Ronald Reagan and defending the Carter record. Mondale seems not the least bit uncomfortable in this role, even though it has required him to trim many of his longstanding liberal views, which at one time placed him close to Edward Kennedy on many issues. Mondale's stomach is flat-thanks to tennis-and his face deeply tanned -thanks to a few days of fishing for striped bass off New Jersey. At breakfast last week with TIME editors and political correspondents, the 52-year-old Vice President offered some observations on the campaign. Excerpts...
...seals who perform in a large water tank with a stage, Like an island, in the center. On the night I was there, one seal could not be persuaded to do anything at all. He swam around dreamily, often floating past the frantic ringmaster, his flippers folded across his stomach. The bears in their orange-and-blue sunsuits were much friskier-trained this year to imitate the Olympic athletes in various events. One bear kicked a goal and jumped around the ring in joy to have done it. Another, perhaps the most beguiling of them, stood on a Junglegym-like...
...crumpled on the floor of his office, with two bullets in his stomach, his thoughts pinwheeled off into fantasies of his real and idealized past. His first word had been "Mammon. " As a child he had torn the wings off flies and sold the insects' bodies to science. In high school he had peddled exam answers to his fellow students, then told his teacher that they were cheating. In college he had impregnated an entire sorority and used the offspring to stock a black-market adoption agency...
...usual, Jessica is fighting with her husband (Richard Benjamin) about money. Why, he wonders, is she putting so much pressure on him? Simple, she responds: she is just like all the other women of her class and kind, brought up "to marry the best possible good provider they could stomach...