Word: galled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...splendour of her breasts," wrote an early biographer, "made madmen everywhere." He might also have mentioned her energy, ambition, courage, cunning, charm, wit and wardrobe. It took all those things, and plenty of gall besides, to turn Eliza Gilbert into Lola Montez, famous dancer, mistress of Franz Liszt and Alexandre Dumas père, intimate of kings and prime ministers, de facto ruler of Bavaria during Ludwig I's declining years, and belle of the California gold rush...
Columbia placed three men on both the foil and sabre all-star squads. Foil men Gary Pepper, Bob Berger, and Greg Gall, along with sabre fencers Bruce Soriano, George Bartos, and Tom Losonszy were the Lion's all-league selections. Penn's Ernesto Fernandez and Brooke Makler combined with Tatrallyay to make up the epee team. Yale's Steve Blum and Princeton's Rich Lawrence in sabre and foil, respectively, rounded out the all-star selections...
...What tastes like honey in your mouth may turn into gall in your belly. Already women have more legal freedom than they know what to do with...
...several substances that may accumulate as "stones" in the gall bladder, cholesterol is the most common culprit. Because doctors have not known how to dissolve such stones, the usual remedy has been surgery-an estimated 350,000 operations annually in the U.S. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., now report in the New England Journal of Medicine that, in four cases out of seven, doses of a natural body chemical have succeeded in dissolving cholesterol gallstones. This type of stone, it appears, forms when bile (a digestive substance secreted in the liver and stored in the gall bladder...
...Perk. While both Pinkney and Carney were unfolding detailed plans to help cure the city's financial problems. Perk based his entire campaign on a law-and-order, anti-corruption, anti-Stokes platform. In a city beset by critical problems of health, housing, and unemployment. Perk had the gall to stand before the City Club four days before the election and announce that his number one priority was improving recreation facilities. He and Carney spent the campaign throwing mud at each other, and Perk's aim proved better. Carney accused Perk of gross negligence in his capacity as County Auditor...