Word: biling
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...ignore its pretensions and just rock out. Maybe that letter in the press packet was a joke—a little something to ruffle the feathers of overly analytical rock critics. I certainly hope so. I’d really like to enjoy this record without the taste of bile in my mouth. —Reviewer Bernard L. Parham can be reached at parham@fas.harvard.edu...
...depressed because there is something wrong with them: they’re depressed because there is something to them. The Greeks had it right. They held that the smartest of men had the tendency to become the most depressed. Melancholia, the Greek term for “black bile,” was said to foster pensively intellectual thinkers. And in history, so many great leaders have been depressive or unpleasant. Abraham Lincoln’s melancholia often led him to “weep in public and cite maudlin poetry”, according to Lincoln biographer Joshua Shenk...
...Summers is not someone that I want to represent me,” she said. “He’s not someone that I want to represent Harvard, not someone that I want to represent the seal, Veritas.” But Goodman did not only spit bile about Summers. At one point, she managed to get in a back-handed compliment to the Man. “At least his case of foot-and-mouth disease is not as bad as the nation’s president,” she said. Unlike at President Bush?...
...ASIATIC BLACK BEAR is vanishing from mountainous regions of East Asia, Central Asia and Southeast Asia because bile from its gall bladder is used to treat cancer, asthma and other ailments...
...Army Corps of Engineers in a period of unrestrained pork barrel spending. Ask why FEMA head Michael Brown seemed to know less about the unfolding disaster than the average viewer of Fox News or CNN. But, please, spare the outlandish rhetoric, demagoguery, unsubstantiated speculation, and race-based bile. It is true that the Louisiana National Guard does have troops in Iraq, but the Mississippi National Guard has an even larger percentage of its forces overseas, and looting was virtually non-existent in the latter state while epidemic in the former. It is true that the funding for levy projects...