Word: gallingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Opponents claim that the profitmaking hospitals "dump" poor or uninsured patients by sending them to the nearest public hospital. Critics also charge that they concentrate on such relatively simple yet expensive treatments as delivering babies and removing gall bladders, but leave less profitable procedures like organ transplants and cancer therapy to large teaching hospitals...
Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is 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 have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may well match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching...
...watermark can disclose a forgery. Benjamin and other analysts check the ink used on antique documents. Sometimes its very color is all they need to see. Ink made of ground carbon was used until 1020; it does not affect the color of the paper as it ages. But iron-gall ink, widely used until about 1860, is acidic and with time tends to tint and wear through the paper. Aniline ink followed; it disappears when the paper on which it is used is dunked in water. That is not a test many analysts try, since their document, real or fake...
...signers of the Declaration of Independence was genuine. A hurricane had caused the paper to be submerged in water for five days. When he retrieved it, the owner found to his relief that all the signatures remained clear and bright. They had been written with iron-gall ink on rag paper...
...Market crisis sent observers back to the history books. As cartoonists busied themselves rearranging French ministerial noses to fit that of the Generale who wanted France to defy Europe and stand alone, one European weekly's headline begged the question on everyone's mind: 'Shades of the Fourth Republic?' Gall could suddenly be spelled three ways...