Word: bileful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advance in radiology since the discovery of X rays, appeared on the medical scene. Combining X-ray equipment with a computer and a television cathode-ray tube, this revolutionary diagnostic device can visualize cross sections of the human body to detect, among other disorders, tumors, blood vessel damage and bile duct obstructions. But whereas an X-ray machine cost $50 in 1896, today's CAT scanner may run to $700,000 or more...
...Luce and Life magazine as "dazzling" within six lines of each other. Almost every one of Halberstam's media moguls are "geniuses," one way or another. Almost every reporter in the book is described as "brilliant" and "fiercely independent." Halberstam's villains, like CBS programmer James Aubrey, fairly drip bile off the page...
...unfortunate effect of such invective is to obscure Heller's strength as a connoisseur of absurdity. When his novel is as good as gold, it is a stinging satire etched in acid. The rest of the time, it is only a polemic finger-painted in bile...
...would like to register my strong objection to Mr. Francis J. Connally's recent attack on the establishment of the Summer Times as a newspaper for the children at the Summer School to put out. Just who does this Mr. Connally think he is? His vituperation and bile are, I believe, unsurpassed by those of anyone else on your staff--Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney indeed!!! I thought the new paper was a wonderful effort, and that Mr. Connoly's obviously envious criticisms were just plain mean. How would Mr. Connally like it if Punch Sulzberger was to write...
...bile was rising in Bobby Sullivan, his neck was turning red. This idiot couldn't speak in anything but a shout, and people were starting to notice. Private nightmare turning into public spectacle. The heat of the day was mounting, eye pressure was pressing, and as the idiot drooled on, Bobby got up and headed back up to the street. He bought a six-pack and hitch-hiked home to watch the ball game...