Word: bileful
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...true spite and malice one must now turn to P.J. O'Rourke, 40, a baby boomer who seems to have teethed on brass knuckles and suckled on bile. He is also one of the funniest writers in America, or anywhere else he may go to satisfy his desperate need to extract humor from folly and chaos...
...bran works is still a mystery. One theory is that soluble fiber, which is plentiful in oats as well as citrus fruits and peas and beans, binds up cholesterol-rich bile acids that aid in digestion, thus helping to remove LDLs from the bloodstream. Health experts, however, are cautioning that many new oat products are high in saturated fats and calories. Kellogg's Cracklin' Oats cereal, for example, is made with coconut oil, a dietary no-no. And many muffins are loaded with eggs and sugar. Moreover, oat enthusiasts are mistaken if they think scarfing down oats allows them...
...first Yasser Arafat refused to speak with journalists. When he finally granted an interview to the Saudi Arabian newspaper Asharq al Awsat, a bile of irritation coated his words. He was never consulted before King Hussein cut Jordan's links with the West Bank last month, he complained. Yet that move dumped into his lap the responsibility for administering the occupied territory and for trying to recover it from Israel...
...Even the 1932 convention that first nominated Party Icon Franklin Roosevelt was raucous and bitter. As H.L. Mencken wrote at the time, "The great combat is ending this afternoon in classical Democratic manner. That is to say, the victors are full of uneasiness and the vanquished are full of bile...
...then our former skittishness has presumed that latent in America's cheerful pluralistic soul lies a hot well of anti-Semitic bile, waiting to shoot into a geyser. There's no sure way of telling. In social terms, the eruption of that sort of hatred could be ugly, violent, divisive. In practical terms, blatant anti-Semitism could result in a withdrawal of American tax dollars, leaving the nation that made a garden from a desert as vulnerable to its enemies as a flipped turtle...