Word: bileful
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...rapacity of Regina Hubbard and her scheming brothers gives Blitzstein a chance to point up their bile-laden words with incongruously sweet sounds, and he makes the most of it-as when Regina sings a waltz with such words...
...real-life priest was no ordinary padre. He was the Cardinal Archbishop of Bologna, Giacomo Lercaro, 61, known as the most unconventional cardinal in the college and one of the most papábile (Italian for papal timber). Only six years ago, jovial, friendly Giacomo Lercaro was a mere parish priest, but one who had distinguished himself as an antiFascist. During the war he preached outspokenly against the Germans, aided partisans and sheltered refugees so effectively that eventually he was forced to flee for his life to a monastery cell. In 1947, when the Communists were riding high, the Vatican...
...satirist, bile is almost as necessary as ink. Some, like Dean Swift, swim in it; others, like John Marquand, barely wet their prose in it; a few end by drowning in it. Japan's Ryunosuke Akutagawa was one of the hapless few; in 1927, sunk in pessimism and possibly near madness, he took an overdose of veronal and died. He was only 35, but the more than 100 short stories he wrote have since established him as Japan's most corrosive modern satirist...
...Merck & Co. announced that Dr. Lewis H. Sarett has achieved the "total synthesis" of cortisone from a common coal-tar material, instead of having to start with scarce and costly bile acids (TIME...
...then on, through miles of pipes and batteries of stills and filters, this intermediate and its successors are dissolved and crystallized out, redissolved and re-precipitated, filtered and centrifuged, catalyzed and concentrated, evaporated and distilled, boiled and chilled below zero. These processes go on around the clock, and the bile acid gets no Sundays...