Word: coughs
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...from their late owner and indulge their fantasies. In various episodes, megalomaniac Mr. Blik travels to the moon in search of an ingredient for a barbecue recipe, sweethearted Gordon tries to find a unicorn, and ditzy Waffle hunts the world's most wicked mouse. You'll laugh till you cough up a fur ball...
...owes his mixed Protestant and Roman Catholic training to the strictures of his British father, whose family has been Church of England "since Reformation times," and the meddling of an aunt who gives him holy pictures and sees that a priest baptizes him during a siege of whooping cough...
Before Denis Leary was a fire fighter on FX, he was a cop on ABC. The 19 episodes of The Job fall further on the "-edy" side of dramedy than those of Rescue Me, but their gallows humor is much the same. As Mike McNeil, a boozing, cough-syrup-guzzling, philandering detective, Leary charms through sheer insolence...
...Patients like Willie face a terrible fate. Relentless and always fatal, MND kills motor neurones, the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that activate muscles. As muscles stop working, sufferers lose the ability to speak, walk and even cough, but their minds remain alert, horribly aware of the spreading paralysis. No one knows what causes the disease, and most patients die when their breathing fails. By late last year, with Willie unable to speak and finding it so hard to swallow she could barely eat, the couple were willing to try anything...
When I came down with a hacking cough last week, I headed to the Harvard University Health Services (UHS) pharmacy in the Holyoke arcade for some free cough syrup. Watching CNN on the overhead television while I waited in line, it occurred to me that I was getting what would be my last UHS cold pack. An unaccountable sadness overcame me. It was mostly unwarranted—free antihistamines are nothing to sneeze at (ho!), but they’re hardly worth waxing maudlin over. But my last UHS cold pack was, I realized, just one in a series...