Word: galle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once or twice a season of late, depending on how he took care of himself, Joe McCarthy had something else to worry about: his gall bladder. It was acting up last week, and the Yankees' 59-year-old manager went home to Buffalo to mind...
Fearful lest history's pudding smack too bitterly of the gall, wormwood and Bromo-Seltzer dropped into it by PM Editor Ralph Ingersoll's war report, Top Secret* (TIME, April 22), Correspondent Clifford last week began adding his own salty seasoning...
Snake meat was good for rheumatism, otter's liver for tuberculosis. For sore eyes, a fine salve could be made from bears' gall bladders. If dubious of such tried-&-true remedies, the ailing one shuffled down the street to get a heavenly diagnosis from an astrologer, or spiritual advice from one of the local fortune tellers. There was not much point, said the Chinese, in a foreign doctor coming to Changsha to open a foreign-style hospital...
...view of all these facts, how can Harvard University obtain, or even have the gall to ask, leave to raise its rents? Can it be that Harvard-already one of the most expensive schools in the country-is trying to build up its reputation as a rich man's college and thus eliminate the average discharged G. I. who can't afford the luxury of a $75 a month suite? My roommate is far more eloquent on the subject than am I, but unfortunately I cannot quote him in writing for possible publication except in essence when his remarks translate...
Ottawa's gain was Toronto's gall. Officials of Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum cried loudly that they had asked for the gown, hence should exhibit it. For five and a half years the two cities wrangled over the dress...