Word: gall
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...favorite neo-glam-gone-heartland-band The Killers may have picked Springsteen as role model just because they think he’s patriotic, as opposed to those “anti-American” no-goodniks in Green Day, who Flowers recently denounced for having the gall not only to insult the president and his policies, but to go on tour in Europe spreading the same sentiments...
...pain-inflammation connection. The most powerful anti-inflammatory drugs we have are the corticosteroids like prednisone. They have too many side effects to be first-line arthritis drugs but many folks have to take them for other reasons. These patients might find them actually too effective against pain. Appendicitis, gall bladder disease or even bowel infarctions can occur in these patients without them feeling any pain at all. This is very dangerous - the pain of early appendicitis is a good thing; it saves lives by bringing patients to the doctor before they start to die of abdominal infection...
...quite to the point—he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key “Wake Up the Grader” phrases—“It is absurd.” What force! What gall! What fun! “Ridiculous,” “hopeless,” “nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious,” “unquestionable,” on the other, will...
...quite to the point—he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key “Wake Up the Grader” phrases—“It is absurd.” What force! What gall! What fun! “Ridiculous,” “hopeless,” “nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious,” “unquestionable,” on the other, will...
...discover that an arrest for littering a few years back makes him ineligible to serve in the Vietnam War, a war he detests. The narrator, asked if he’s rehabilitated himself after his crime, loses his cool. “You got a lot a damn gall,” he explodes, “to ask me…if I’m moral enough to join the army, burn women, kids, houses, and villages after bein’ a litterbug.”As the debate over the Solomon Amendment plays out in the Supreme...