Word: stomaching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anniston, Ala. Star, which had bridled last year at the violence with which the city met the first Freedom Riders, convicted Wallace of "reckless asininity." But even normally sympathetic papers found the Governor more than they could stomach. "George Wallace is not 'saving Alabama,' " said the Birmingham News, a militantly segregationist daily. "He is in the process of destroying self-government and the educational system of this state...
Wilkins stands in direct contrast to such demagogic types. The 14-hour days he normally puts in at his job are severely straining his strength. He survived surgery for stomach cancer in 1946, but he has a serious gall-bladder ailment that keeps him off the cigars and social drinking he used to enjoy. It does not, however, keep him out of his ivory Triumph sports car, which he loves to drive along parkways near the apartment he shares with his St. Louis-born wife Minnie in an integrated neighborhood in Queens...
...last week, the Senator left the Senate floor, complaining of an upset stomach. Less than 36 hours later he died in Bethesda Naval Hospital of a ruptured main heart artery...
...Fence." The grandson of a pioneer, Scandalous John was once a gifted college veterinary professor; after years of research he had succeeded in keeping a cow alive with a four-stomach picture window. But McCanless' impersonal superiors didn't care enough to look through it. Then John's wife died. Then he lost his teaching chair after he took to packing a Colt .44 to class. He fell behind on the mortgage on the family ranch...
...bloody end on a city sidewalk in a confrontation with an uncomprehending guardian of the sanitary code. It's probably just as well, in view of an alternative offered the hero along the way: a job developing a chimpanzee with a window in its stomach for use in aspirin commercials...