Word: gall
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...indomitable character and courage of Ivan Dejmal resulted in further repression. He suffers from consequences of hepatitis and has a gall-bladder condition; nevertheless, soon after completing his prison term he was drafted into the army. There he was treated not in the usual manner but as a politically unreliable element.' He was kept under close supervision, and his two years in the army amounted for all practical purposes to a continuation of his prison term...
...cold did not hurt the performance of Smith number one Gall Awad, though, as she dispatched Muscatine, 6-2, 6-3. Awad was ranked second in New England last year in the 18 and under division...
Against the UMass varsity, Radcliffe coach John Baker has set a boat with Diane Hickman at stroke, Allison Hill at seven, Hannah Shore at six, Karen Oberhauser at five, Gall Rasmussen at four, Marie Adams at three, Katie Moss at two, Robin Lothrop at bow, and Nancy Hadley handling the coxswain chores...
...Seventy is wormwood/ Seventy is gall/ But it's better to be 70/ Than not alive at all." It is also better to be 71, which is Poet Phyllis McGinley's real age despite the birthday doggerel she composed for herself last week. "It couldn't matter less," she laughed, "now that it's out." Still a vigorous defender of the glories of housewifery, the 1961 Pulitzer prizewinner had little praise for modern poets. "They stopped using rhyme, and they stopped using meter," she complained. "They're just kind of wandering about, like Erica Jong...
...Conrad's acidulous critiques. The competition for attention may have reduced the impact of graphic art everywhere. Yet the cartoon seems to be gaining influence. No photograph damaged Lyndon Johnson so much as David Levine's waspish drawing of L.B. J. lifting his shirt to reveal a gall bladder scar-in the shape of Viet Nam. Richard Nixon once admitted, "I wouldn't start the morning by looking at Herblock." Even President Ford, gazing forlornly at a gallery of U.S. political cartoons, recently conceded, "The pen is mightier than the politician...