Word: gout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tung's life reportedly fading after serious case of the gout. President Lyndon B. Johnson makes his 78th television appearance, surpassing President Eisenhower's eight year record by 29 and President Kennedy's total for three years by 45. In his address, Johnson explains the New Math...
Chekhov's Uncle Vanya is a very thin crust of tension spread over a layer of boredom. A retired professor and his young wife come to their country estate they draw to their circle a country doctor who comes to treat the professor's gout and stays to admire his lady. The life of the estate comes to revolve around this trio; the country people are sucked into shaping their once-tedious lives around the newcomers, until finally, when they depart, those who remain can only sigh again and again, "They're gone...
...having rubbish strewn artistically around his 5000 acre South Hampton estate, who is survived by wife Iss. and son Whippet, and whose chief caretaker, when asked why work was stopped after the death announcement, replied, "We've decided to leave the job of disseminating trash to the CRIMSON" of gout...
...fist in the face or a knee in the groin are routine asides. The climaxes occur when a gang of hoodlums beats a stray soldier nearly to death, with every kick, blow, chipped tooth, broken bone, and gout of blood and vomit described in detail; when a gang of transvestites and their boy friends get high on gin, Benzedrine and morphine, with every ensuing act of sodomy and fellatio described in detail; when a gang of dockworkers, derelicts and degenerates inflict multiple intercourse upon a prostitute in a parking lot so savagely that she is killed, with every drop...
...debt, he had enough ships in the West Indies in 1781 to retain command of the /western Atlantic. But first he went off on an orgy of legalized piracy to seize and loot the rich little Dutch colony of St. Eustatius. Then, complaining that he was suffering from "the gout and the gravel," he sailed back to England in the luxury of one of his biggest ships...