Word: galled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...African medical scientists who suggest that what commercials call "regularity" may be a matter of life and death. Too few bowel movements and too little bulk in the stools, they write in the Journal of the A.M.A., may partly explain the occurrence of such varied disorders as heart and gall-bladder disease, appendicitis, diverticulosis, varicose veins, clotting in the deep veins, hiatal hernia and cancer of the large intestine...
John Dunlop, head of the COLC, objected-but rather mildly. Two weeks ago, he called a 2.9% price increase by Chrysler, which had not signed the price-restraint agreement, "a display of consummate gall." He confined himself to calling the Ford increase "unwarranted" and conceded that Ford's data "indicate that costs per unit have risen above those projected." Since general wage-price controls have expired, Dunlop cannot order a rollback; to get the Ford increase canceled or reduced he would have to go to court, and it is doubtful that the White House would permit the Justice Department...
...galled by the errors (if any) in the President's tax returns [April 15]. What does gall me is that Citizen Nixon has been forced to make public what most citizens consider private matters...
...partner, Sonny Grosso, he lends Grosso's fictional counterpart, Buddy Mannucci, an institutional weight that Egan lacked. Mannucci heads a special plain-clothes corps aimed at gaining arrests (by unorthodox means) of men wanted for prison terms of seven years and more. Mannucci uses most of his guile and gall to manufacture evidence. But his atavistic instincts are intact when he blackjacks a captured Mafioso senseless, or thrusts a gun under the nose of a loan shark caught...
...Fulbright judges, immediately cast him in his first professional role-as Octavius in a New York Shakespeare Festival production of Antony and Cleopatra. "I was a bonus baby," recalls Moriarty, "just like in baseball. I was a raw young talent with little technique and a lot of gall based on very weak foundations-which started to crumble when I got to England...