Word: stomaching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Camellias. The courtly scion of four generations of South Carolina lawyers, who grows camellias for a hobby, Haynsworth had little stomach for the fight. He received the news of his rejection in his characteristically quiet manner, and with some relief: "The ordeal of the past two months has ended," he said afterward. Haynsworth said he was going to consider if he should resign his present judgeship...
...that it is time to put the therapy to bed. Man just isn't made to face ultimate absurdity-paradox, yes. Absurdity? Not as a steady dict anyway. The Holy is meta-historical. Existentialism, for all its benefits, has no time for dreams, no visionary capacity, and therefore no stomach for celebration...
Nina Davis was hard as nails, a perfect match for most of the city reporters. Elizabeth Gardner was biting her lip and looking at the floor. She let her half-smoked cigarette flop in an ashtray and held her stomach, unnoticed...
...wrong, and I know it can't be just bad luck." "Leslie's karma has been messed up," Dennis explains. "We have to locate the spirit." The whole group slides closer to Leslie, and all place hands on her body. "Where do you feel it?" he asks. "In my stomach and thighs," says Leslie. "Oh, boy!" says Dennis. "I want you to just breathe in and out, really hard." Everybody presses down on Leslie. "You're hurting my stomach," she groans. Finally the spirit is out; the group brushes it away with ostrich plumes. "All you have...
Marty got pregnant this summer. She was looking much better when I saw her last week, and I told her so. "That's because I've lost weight," she said, patting her stomach. She talked about her trip to London. "Tim and I flew in Thursday night. Friday I saw my doctor and the two psychiatrists. It was strange-they asked me questions like did I have any previous history of mental illness and did I get along with my parents and all. I said that I'd been through the usual number of hassles but that I was basically...