Word: stomachly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly a year and a half before Reformer Tunney's outburst, D.S.I. members got along like gin and whiskey on an empty stomach, squabbling over a permanent chairman to succeed the late William Forbes Morgan. Last week they found one with enough soul to satisfy even Gene Tunney. By unanimous consent they elected as executive director Dr. Wesley A. Sturges, since 1923 professor of law at, Yale University...
...higher than the rim of the stadium behind it up and up in a graceful are. His eyes glue themselves to this careening brown speck. He remains motionless, staring at it in fascination like one hypnotized. . . . This is a game, old boy; it has started now. Forget that hollow stomach feeling. This is a football in the air; your anticipation is over; the future has become the present. This is why your rib felt like it was cracked last week. It's why you sweated and studied and dreamed. It is the dust and monotony of a practice field...
...Generalissimo Francisco Franco's dictatorship, Spanish Rightist aviators last week dropped tens of thousands of quarter-pound loaves of bread over the hungry Leftist cities of Madrid and Barcelona. Believing they had pulled off a stunt calculated to persuade Leftists that a Rightist victory would mean a full stomach, Rightist propagandists announced that Madrid's share of the bread, safely floated to the ground in makeshift parachutes, had been 178,000 loaves. Later, ending a week's pause, Rightist batteries west of Madrid resumed their futile shelling of the city, and airmen from Majorca returned to drop...
...July 2, 1917, Buck Private Abian Anders Wallgren was arrested for trying to smuggle two bottles of cognac into camp. It was the first vagary of a mildly undisciplined disposition which ultimately got Private Wallgren seven court-martials, never for anything more serious than "butting an officer in the stomach to get into quarters...
...less an authority than that of Yale ("Drink Her Down") University, it was argued last week that a highball, a Martini or three glasses of beer could be consumed on an empty stomach without impairing its owner's ability to drive a car. Double the amounts could be taken after eating...