Word: stomaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thrift holiday cut some 500,000 Ohio depositors off from a total of $4 billion in savings. "The longer this goes on, the scareder I am," said Mary Lou Dehler of Cincinnati, who with her husband Richard, a retired postal worker, had accounts in Molitor Loan & Building. "My stomach just rolls over. They have got my whole life in that bank." The financial suffering in Ohio rattled consumers across the U.S. and worried foreign investors as well. In a classic sign of anxiety, moneymen bid up the price of gold by $35.70 last Tuesday, to $339 an ounce...
...very rarely is there a comedy that one can regard as real relaxation therapy. Mostly, the theatergoer gets a strong dose of serious drama pregnant with a serious message. During the midterm season, such an overdose of gravity could be dangerous to your health, or at least to your stomach. Not to worry, however. Into this season of dramatic doldrums comes The Good Doctor, and any strong message he might have is given with a large dose of humor...
...been brutally beaten, and his throat was cut. On Feb. 13 English finished a roast pig dinner at Horwath's restaurant in Elmwood Park, Ill., trading small talk for more than two hours with, among others, two Cook County judges and two village trustees. He patted his stomach, hitched up his belt, waved goodbye and walked toward his white Cadillac De Ville coupe. As he reached for the car door, two men wearing ski masks pumped five shots into his body, one hitting him between his eyes...
...leaves to suppress hunger and induce a mild euphoria to help them ignore the cold. Others use them as an anesthetic or to ward off altitude sickness. For many, coca leaves are simply a cure-all. "Hot or cold, it's a different kind of drink, good for the stomach. It reduces weight. It restores energy," proclaims an advertisement for coca tea in Peru, where the marketing of coca-based products is quite legal...
...says, "the bringing together of appropriate chemicals at appropriate times is the basis of all biology. It's as old as life itself." So why single out the bombardier for harboring dangerous chemicals in its body? he asks. Why not the human digestive tract, for example? There the stomach walls are protected from the hydrochloric acid within by a layer of mucus, which, if damaged, would allow the potent acid to attack the stomach walls and be released into the body...