Word: stomaching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many heroes at the 1968 Win ter Olympics, the man who stands above all is a moody, onetime consumptive who complains of a nervous stomach and insomnia, and likes to talk in par ables. "When I was a child," says Jean-Claude Killy, 24, who last week swept three gold medals in Alpine skiing, "I had a friend named Gérard d'Agallier...
...perhaps amenable to negotiation to that of one arrogantly confident he can smash the American will to fight. President Johnson was right in saying that it is not so much our power as our will and our character that are being tested here, and character starts with a strong stomach...
After a briefly encouraging recovery, Kasperak again began to bleed internally, this time from "stress ulceration." In yet another operation, Dr. Harry Oberhelman Jr. closed the bleeding sites in the duodenum and cut the vagus nerve to reduce the stomach's output of digestive acids. But these measures, plus massive transfusions, failed to halt the bleeding, and Kasperak was soon back in surgery. In another 21-hour operation, the surgeons tried to stanch the bleeding from an ulcer high in his stomach, and removed his spleen in the hope of improving the clotting quality of his blood...
...others as the act of painting them is for him. His own self-portrait is a mixture of honesty and defiance. "If a person stands in front of you," he points out, "with his hands in his pockets and his shirt open, someone can stick a knife in his stomach." Thanks to Leslie's technical mas tery, the painting captures both his sullen antagonism toward the world and, at the same time, makes him look as innocent and as vulnerable as any of Pearlstein's coldly viewed nudes...
...play consists of frightening, cruel vignettes. A woman six months pregnant is booted in the stomach and loses her baby. An Angolan Negro loses his passbook, hence his job, hence his life. The pitiable wages of native contract laborers are recorded, along with a drum-roll-call of industrial corporations that draw profits from the mines of Rhodesia, Katanga and South Africa...