Word: stomachics
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Others rent hotel rooms on their parents' credit cards, and sleep six or more to a room. Invariably someone stumbles into the room, pukes on one bed, and falls asleep in the other. Fifteen minutes later, he empties his stomach on that...
...felt my heart and stomach lurch and fall with the fish as it escaped an imminent confinement in plastic...
Sommers, standing at the front of the room, answered the questions curtly and looked shocked. Richard C. Marius, the director of the program, sat nearby and stewed. He looked sick, and he would later spend time in Stillman Infirmary for a "stomach problem," believed to be an ulcer...
...wielding his personal charm as a form of power: "Men and women fell in love with him." He was a skilled dissembler and sometimes a liar. He claimed to be healthy and filled with "vigor," but he was chronically ill with Addison's disease, agonizing back pain, a weak stomach and puzzling allergies. He was kept alive by a cocktail of medicine every day, along with cortisone implants in his thighs and feel-good amphetamine injections. Kennedy's secret sexual encounters with dozens of women are now well known. Reeves documents some of them, including one arranged by Secretary...
...Little Rock, he reached Magaziner at a miniature-golf course near his home in Providence, Rhode Island, where he was relaxing with his children. He located Bruce Reed at Georgetown University Hospital, where his own health-care bill was rising while his wife was undergoing tests for a stomach ailment. He found Joshua Wiener, a Brookings Institution fellow, clipping hedges at his home in Washington. Wiener grabbed some of his kids' purple-dinosaur scratch paper and, at his kitchen table, retabulated the costs and savings one more time. He figured Clinton needed $50 billion for a bare-bones benefit package...