Word: stomaching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...water buffalo. Dogs prowl through the rubble, stirring up black clouds of flies, as they try to reach putrid human flesh buried beneath the mud bricks and roof tiles of shattered houses. A few Pakistani police patrol the streets to prevent looting but, otherwise, Kasur is a blend of stomach-turning smells and silence...
...casinos and roadhouses. Sewage is doing the same thing to upstate New York's Chautauqua Lake, the famous site of open-air lectures and summer artistry. In Appalachia, strip miners have ravaged the hills for ore and left behind a gutted horizon that, says one native, "makes my stomach turn." Thousands of acres of Atlantic coast marshland, home of waterfowl and spawning ground for oysters and clams, are being filled in by marina-minded resort builders...
...long ago she might have got by with illustrious bones, a rumor of a bosom, reliable cosmetics, and a stomach that could settle on Ry-Krisp and yoghurt, but fashions in fashion models change. These days the girl who can't perform a mean frug might just as well turn in her hatbox. It's a cinch that she will never make the scene...
...Betty Anne Turnbull. He had time in those days to play some semi-pro softball until Betty Anne insisted that he either improve or quit. He quit. He was also frustrated by the slow and relatively unexciting pace of work at Langley, became increasingly restless, and developed a serious stomach ulcer...
...farmers and their families in the Saxon market town of Cloppenberg stood stolidly as the Chancellor launched into his basic campaign theme for 1965: the need to develop in West Germany a formierte Gesellschaft, meaning a well-ordered society, with equal restraint on government regimentation and private "stomach filling and greed." The Saxon farmers interrupted Erhard neither for catcalls nor clapping, but they chuckled each time he lit another Black Wisdom cigar, and at the end presented him with a piglet as a good-luck token. Such appreciative receptions greeted der Dicke wherever he went. In three days of whistle...