Word: stomaching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stein, 40, and no kin to Arthur, expressed full agreement. While Adman Stein is straightforwardly encouraging older readers to take it on the lam, Editor Stein says he is taking a subtler tack: he is running large amounts of fiction on the theory that elderly females can't stomach the stuff. Says he with ill-concealed admiration: "The ads are a quicker method...
...tots -no more than seven or eight years old. 'What shall we do with them?' asked the adults. The children devised a different fate for each of us. 'Cut that one's ear off and make him eat it,' or, 'Cut his stomach open,' or, 'Put his eyes out.' Two rebels kept sharpening their spears all the time. The children yelled, 'Let's get started. Kill the first...
...enemy of topical TV farce, Bousgarbiès even suggested "a better subject"-a TV race between Charles de Gaulle and Ben Bella, both in shorts and "bicycling madly in the Algerian velodrome, with Ben Bella winning." As for historical hilarity, Bousgarbiès said he could even stomach a current Paris revue that portrays Joan of Arc hearing those voices and then yanking a transistor radio out of her bodice. But tax-paid satire of Napoleon? "Scandalous," bristled the aged avocat. "I would be just as upset to see Joan of Arc doing a striptease or Clemenceau wrestling...
With only 275 million acres of tillable soil (the rest is too cold, mountainous or arid), Peking's planners have only one-third of an acre from which to nourish each stomach; whereas in other countries the ratio is two or three acres per person. With fertilizer still in short supply, rations continue slim...
...Robert) Samuel McLaughlin of Oshawa, Ont. Though he is 93, McLaughlin still puts in several hours a day as chairman of G.M. of Canada Ltd., likes to show off his fitness by urging companions to "feel my muscle" and to punch him squarely in the stomach...