Word: stomachic
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...While it may be true that a camera never lies, it certainly can be misleading. The video is harrowing, and a viewer armed with nothing more than 20/20 hindsight can feel the knot in his stomach tighten as death draws near on Baghdad's outskirts. But viewed in isolation, lacking any insight into what else was going on in that neighborhood on that particular day, what may have seemed at the time to be a justified military action looks wanton and possibly against the rules of war. (See pictures of Iraq's revival...
Norovirus infects the small intestines, causing stomach pain, nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting...
...Eric Abrahamsen, a Beijing-based translator of modern Chinese fiction, it is clear that Mo Yan engages in the complex calculus of what is and isn't permissible that faces every Chinese writer. There is nothing wrong with that: not every artist has the stomach for strident dissent and, having been banned in the past, Mo Yan has nothing to prove. But these days, says Abrahamsen, Mo Yan "knows exactly where the lines are and doesn't cross them." Discussion about the drawbacks of the one-child policy, and whether it should be rolled back, is now permissible in China...
...felt as if we'd been punched in the stomach. But with the help of family and friends, we marshaled the resources to fight to keep our only sizable asset, our home...
...Yugo has been called a hopelessly degenerate hunk of trash and a vile little car. Critics have said it's hard to view on a full stomach. It's easy to start feeling bad for the little guy. Oh, sure. I had these memories as a kid in the 1980s of the car being panned by everyone, but I didn't approach this book just to make fun of the car. I like little cars. I really didn't pan the car. I've read a couple reviews that say, "Vuic doesn't lay off the Yugo...