Word: stomachics
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...Utrecht-Groningen line and-to the particular fury and fear of the nation-105 children and five primary school teachers from the village of Bovensmilde. For four emotion-filled days, the children were held inside their school. Then, because most of them seemed to have fallen victim to a stomach virus, they were unexpectedly released. But the terrorists still held the school, the train and the adult hostages, and the slow-burning anger of the Dutch mounted ominously...
...blind, Teddy spots the lovers cavorting outside his bedroom window one day and summarily orders Oliver off the premises. The boy fears that he will never see Molly again. He goes berserk, picks up a pair of garden shears and plunges them repeatedly into the old man's stomach. After that, the plot takes on the melodramatic twists of a detective thriller...
Vulnerable Target. With reason, evidently. On the morning of May 7, firemen, summoned by a neighbor, broke into the Jackson house to put out a smoky blaze. They found Mrs. Jackson dead on the kitchen floor, a .22-cal. bullet wound in her stomach. Police, searching the house, soon found bizarre confirmation of the tales about her wealth. Stashed around the place, in toolboxes, drawers, a vacuum-cleaner bag and a garbage can, was some $5 million in crisp bank notes, mostly hundred-dollar bills. An investigation revealed that over a period of time, she had withdrawn at least...
...trial was moved to a nearby county, but after a jury of ten blacks and two whites was tentatively selected, Prosecutor Jay Stroud complained of stomach pains and obtained a postponement. Next time out, Stroud used all his 40 pre-emptory challenges to eliminate blacks from the jury, and ended with a panel often whites and two elderly blacks. "The best we were hoping for was a hung jury if the two blacks could hold out," Chavis recalls. After a five-week trial, in which several young blacks testified that the ten defendants had staged the bombing, the jury took...
Anyone who has ever read a comic book, watched a rerun of Superman or tuned in same bat-time, same bat-station, knows, despite sweating palms and churning stomach, the superhero always wins. But lingering childhood confidence in the media creation cannot quite assert itself against Superfolks. Mayer is not Alfred Hitchcock or Agatha Christie, and when one turns a page anticipating a crucial revelation and finds instead a new, unrelated chapter, one can cringe and say "Aha. He's trying to build suspense--cheap trick." The simple reason Mayer used moth-eaten tactics is that he can use them...