Word: gout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gout in his arm has bothered him intermittently, and he punches a bag occasionally and watches his diet (by stinting on meat proteins and fried foods) to strengthen his throwing-even while working as an off-season customers' man on Wall Street. He has never won 20 games in a season, partly because the Yankees pulled him out of the regular pitching rotation to use him as a "stopper" in the big games. In 1960 he had his worst year, 12-9, although he redeemed himself with two shutouts against Pittsburgh in the World Series...
Reading all these learned and badly written papers in a sitting has brought on my tantrum, which is really just a simple case of grader's gout. Such is my curmudgeonly state, that if I see one more sentence of the "evaluating conceptologically valid methodologies in the light of historical analysis, on the one hand as it were, and on the other, in meshing frames of reference, so to speak" variety, then I shall take the name of Talcott Parsons in vain...
...greatest of U.S. river systems. Starting as a trickle in the Rocky Mountains, the Colorado River sweeps south and west to absorb such tributaries as the Gunnison River, the Roaring Fork and the Frying Pan, until, after a passage of 1,400 miles, it empties with a gout of reddish, mineral-stained water into the Gulf of California...
...Hench challenged his hearers with the defiant statement that they would probably be unable to accept his theory at this stage. But since he suggested that it applied, beyond rheumatoid arthritis, to several disorders such as rheumatic fever, gout, psoriasis and ulcerative colitis, he left them with much to ponder...