Word: bitten
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Minter maintained that he saw a scratch on Johnson's arm, although Johnson himself thought only a slight bruise had marked the spot where the had been bitten...
...year-old housewife who appeared at the emergency room of University Hospitals in Cleveland could not swallow and could scarcely talk. Her tongue was swollen and intensely painful. Through these impediments she managed to tell the doctor that while tending her house plants that afternoon, she had bitten a piece of stalk from a handsome specimen with striped leaves, called Dieffenbachia. Her pain was so severe that the doctors had to give her a morphine-type drug. After a while she was able to take, though painfully, a little aluminum-magnesium hydroxide as an antidote to whatever poison she might...
...Lucien Holman, 42, a Joliet dentist who heads all N.A.A.C.P. activities in Illinois, stood up. "I don't agree with anything Mayor Daley said," cried Holman. "Everybody knows there are ghettos here. And if those of you from Mississippi think you're the first persons ever bitten by police dogs, you're wrong. That little technique began right here in the sovereign state of Illinois. And we've got more segregated schools here than you've got in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana combined...
...biggest of the federal projects is at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta. There, to run its malaria research, PHS has installed a staff inside the walls, with its own offices and laboratories, and a separate ward for the prisoners who volunteer to be bitten by malaria-bearing mosquitoes. World War II's crash campaign to find quinine substitutes depended on federal prisoners...
...snake, a small boa constrictor, was not eaten raw but skinned and cooked over a charcoal fire. It tasted fine, although a bit gamy. The snake's head was bitten off to demonstrate that a soldier can live off the land if necessary without the aid of knives or guns...