Word: stomachics
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Back at the blood-spattered bandstand, we crammed four kids into the bucket seat in the front of one car. Three men got into the back seat, one of them terribly wounded in his stomach, chest and limbs. Another, for whom there was simply no more room, told us solemnly: "Please rent a truck in Phnom-Penh to take us out. We will pay you for all your trouble." His two sons had been killed the night before and his brother was lying badly wounded on the cement...
...prophets and saints, and art has its Pluches-aesthetic Jesuits, Leathernecks of creativity, defenders of aristocratic art-soul against bourgeois art-stomach, men of passion and appetite, of sublime ups and leaden downs. Pluche is a talented, unfashionable, moderately successful painter who is down-or, in Jean Dutourd's words, "chained down in hell amid the circle of the frivolous damned, where everything is mere diversion, where one only hears rank stupidities, where one only says stupidities oneself, where one is bored to death without ever dying...
...Yessir?" said the young man, who was already beginning to resent the stench of alcohol on the older man's breath. He looked quietly at the other's bulging stomach. His coach had warned him about liquor...
...related to lithium, and drew blanks. Then he turned to strontium, which competes with calcium in many vital biochemical processes and is some how involved in the body's handling of another trace element, magnesium. Again Cade picked the carbonate form as the least likely to upset the stomach. He recently told colleagues that he has tried it on himself and noted "a distinct tranquilizing effect," though he considers himself "a pharmacologically tough animal." He also has preliminary evidence that it relieves schizophrenia symptoms in some patients, although not in others...
...only learn through experience. We only really know what we have seen and heard and felt. I am not black, and therefore I cannot explain what it is like to feel the spiked heel of racism grinding into your stomach...