Word: stomachics
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...forgive a slight. He has been known to berate hostile questioners, but normally he is unemotional in public, though on rare occasions he explodes in private. One close associate has seen him in a rage on only three or four occasions, but each time Jackson became sick to his stomach...
...peripatetic of plagues. A 1968 epidemic afflicted more than 30 million in the U.S. alone; similar, though considerably less serious outbreaks of the disease erupted in 1972 and 1973. Now the flu is once again making the grand tour. The disease, which causes the all too familiar headache, upset stomach, coughing and fever, has struck hard in Eastern Europe and turned up in the western part of the Continent. It has also gained a foothold in the U.S., where, although it has not yet reached the proportions of previous assaults, it has cut into school attendance and increased absenteeism...
...years that followed, Freud continued to study and analyze cocaine's effects, both on himself and on some patients. He found the drug not only useful in overcoming depression but impressively effective against some purely physiological complaints. He used it to treat stomach disorders and persistent coughing. He was careful not to administer it indiscriminately; although he initially believed that cocaine was not habit-forming, he found its effects on patients too unpredictable to justify widespread...
...accommodate a lover. She is a tempestuous creature of instinct who is maddeningly irked by one fact: Leone shows no visible jealousy. She begs her lover Guido (David Dukes) to kill her husband, but he does not really take the plea seriously, and besides he has no stomach for the assignment...
Presidential hopefuls Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter and Henry "Scoop" Jackson (D-Wash.) took a different tack working on the theory that the way to a man's vote is through his stomach. Wherever Gov. Carter went he left little paper cups fulled with Georgia peanuts and a glossy magazine filled with pictures of himself. Jackson had a trailer in the basement of the convention hall where delegates could pick up apples "picked in Washington...