Word: stomaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard punt rush pressure, which up to this point had been ordinary, suddenly exploded. A group of players broke through the line, exploiting the weakness. Kris Thabit reached Lion kicker Al Pollard and intercepted the kick with his stomach. Teammate Mike Hirschland recovered the bouncing ball, and danced five yards into the endzone. Harvard led 21-0, and never looked back...
...Finally, after a 28-hour marathon bargaining session that ended about 60 hours beyond the original strike deadline, settlement came on Thursday morning. U.A.W. President Owen Bieber was not around for the handshakes; the strain of the negotiations had sent him to a Detroit hospital on Tuesday night with stomach pains. But he kept in touch with the talks by phone, and his deputy, U.A.W. Vice President Stephen Yokich, proclaimed the union's view of the outcome. "We have a good agreement," he said. "Truly, we broke a lot of new ground...
Thus, it is unbelievable that the University could ever lend PBH a bus that was about to burst into flames. When you lend someone your car, it is implicit that when they try to drive it, it will not blow up. But the real stomach-turner hits when one takes a look at how Harvard has handled the PBH affair...
When Shultz heard about this U.S. offer to sell more arms and to help spring the convicted killers, he testified, it "made me sick to my stomach." He got a Sunday-morning appointment with Reagan to tell him about the proposal. Poindexter had testified that Reagan approved the nine points as a bargaining tool. No way, said Shultz. "I have never seen him so mad," said the Secretary. "He's a very genial, pleasant man, he's very easygoing, but his jaw set, and his eyes flashed . . . In that meeting I finally felt that the President deeply understands that something...
...Diego gives cautious approval. "Patients tend to do a little better in terms of range of motion and comfort on the water bed than conventional bedding," he says. But Dr. Rene Caillet, a rehabilitation specialist at Santa Monica Hospital Medical Center, is unconvinced. "If you lie on your stomach, the water bed allows you to increase the sway or the sag of the back," he notes...