Word: stomachics
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Died. Meyer ("Mickey") Cohen, 62, pint-sized (5 ft. 3 in.) onetime West Coast gang leader; of complications of stomach cancer; in Los Angeles. A Brooklyn-born boxer who was running his own mob in Cleveland at 19, Cohen went on to work in a Chicago gambling casino owned by the Capone syndicate, then turned to bookmaking in California. After Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel was shot in 1947, Cohen became the high-living kingpin of Los Angeles gangdom. He was sentenced to prison twice, both times on charges of income tax evasion. Cohen was released in 1972, partially paralyzed...
...seemed ancient history; the countercultural revolution had turned passe. The Democratic Party was both luxuriating in and seeming a bit bored and stifled by its newfound h-a-a-a-r-m-o-n-y. Complained California Political Consultant Don Bradley, "All this sweetness and light turns my stomach...
Carter admitted he had been troubled that Mondale had aborted his early presidential bid in 1974 on the grounds that he lacked the stomach for a long, grueling race. He was the first man out on the track and the first one off it. In just six months in 1974, Mondale gave more than 100 speeches, traveled nearly 200,000 miles, visited 31 states and made image-building trips to Moscow, Paris and Israel-only to discover that no one seemed to care. In the presidential preference polls, he was getting the support of only 2% of the voters...
...very day that Marine Corps Commandant Louis H. Wilson was discussing such outrages before the House Armed Services Committee, three D.I.s at Parris Island were suspended after one struck a recruit with a blow of such force that it perforated the youth's stomach...
With the appearance of Novelist Herbert Lieberman's City of the Dead, the faint of stomach are in for yet another assault on their feelings. Yet precisely because Lieberman's book, certifiably the shocker of the summer, speeds up the already overaccelerated trend toward limitless carnage, it vividly raises an old, unpopular question: Might not the squeamish have a point after...