Word: bileful
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...load. William Lewis, born last Oct. 10 in New York City, was a rare example of a far more serious condition. His complexion remained abnormal. Even more frightening, his stools and urine indicated that he suffered from an inborn defect, biliary atresia-the absence or severe underdevelopment of tiny bile ducts emerging from the liver. William's case proved to be unusual in another respect: he was flown to Japan in the search for lifesaving corrective surgery...
Nature designed the ducts to carry bile on its way from the liver, where it is made, to the duodenum, where it aids in digestion. Among the estimated 200 occurrences each year of biliary atresia in the U.S., there are a few in which ducts outside the liver are large enough for corrective surgery. But not in William's case...
...response to your Essay on the need for complaining: I've been a letter-writing, telegram-sending complainer for quite a few years now, and I agree with you that complaining releases "bile" and occasionally gets results...
Complaining can be fun, and it releases bile, which can sour the mind and the times if repressed. Above all, complaining may be important to the American spirit. The republic was founded on the principle that the common man can be heard. Lack of faith in complaint has something to do with loss of faith in justice under law, in equal treatment for the faceless man. To give up on complaint is to give in to the feeling that the distant and impersonal state or corporation has taken away a bit of the American Dream. Every complaining man or woman...
...Philly, a monomaniacal revenger who finally kills Pilgrim for no good reason. Derby is executed for "stealing" a figurine from the Dresden rubble in order to replace an identical one broken by his son, While Lazarro survives the war rat-like, chewing off his own guts and using the bile he collects against mankind in general...