Word: bileful
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...aged, the eel-spined younger generation, the middle-aged materialistic middle class, the hot-and-cold war-babied economy, the affluent society, and-horror of horrors-store-bought bread. This catalogue of latter-day evils presumably calls for the wrath of Jeremiah. Unfortunately, Lillian Hellman only manages to turn bile into bilgewater...
...jaundiced Dracula in ragpicker's clothing-in a background of bile...
...strident, misleading, dull or offensive. "People are irritated by some ads on TV," says Charles Brower, outspoken president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn. "The audience gets bored when yet more intestines appear on the screen as the evening goes on. Who wants to wake up his liver bile all the time?" Cunningham & Walsh President Carl W. Nichols faults some of his colleagues on grounds of creativity as well as esthetics: "I am repeatedly appalled at the lack of ideas in today's advertising. Much of it is shamefully sameful...
Fats & Coronaries. Ordinarily, the human liver synthesizes only enough cholesterol to satisfy the body's needs-for transportation of fats and for production of bile. Even eggs and other cholesterol-rich foods, eaten in normal amounts, says Dr. Keys, do not materially affect the amount of cholesterol in the blood. But fatty foods...
...large for the body to excrete. Mono-unsaturated fats (predominant in olive oil, most margarines) have no apparent effect at all on blood cholesterol levels. Polyunsaturated fats, such as those in corn, cottonseed or fish oils, on the other hand, actually lower cholesterol by increasing the excretion of bile acids...