Word: gush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that failed to darken him sufficiently, so he settled in the end for coal-black grease paint. He tightened the spring in his stride, explaining, "Othello should walk like a soft black panther." He practiced the curiously accented, oddly stressed speech that evoked the way some Jamaicans and Africans gush English, managing thereby to convey the way the Moor spoke Italian...
When circulation through the liver is blocked by disease, the blood backs up into the veins lining the gullet (esophagus) and sometimes the stomach as well. The swollen, twisted veins are called varices. Their thin walls are prone to break and let blood ooze, or even gush, into the digestive tract. To squeeze the veins shut and thus stop the bleeding, two New York surgeons, Dr. Robert W. Sengstaken and Dr. Arthur H. Blakemore, devised a most ingenious triple tube...
...some exteriors, showed a tendency to conceal structure with overlaid flowing ornament which deceived the eye in quite the same way that an overornamented, spuriously structured dress of that period also did. Much building in the 19th century suffered from a kind of romantic eclecticism that brought on a gush of half-baked period revivals, and the history of 19th century costume shows quite the same dependence on the ancient world, the Middle Ages, the rococo period, Catherine de Medici and James II. In the architecture of our own time, the compulsion to expose structure to view, to suppress applied...
...extorting tears for a dead child. The child is Gerard, doomed to sanctity in a New England tribe of boozing, brawling Canucks. He dies at nine, a neighborhood wonder, full of love for God, small animals and his mother. Kerouac's feeling is genuine, and the self-indulgent gush of his prose is perhaps no worse than the pietistic style of those who have had to deal with real, grown-up saints...
...heat. For producing electric power, says Hammond, there is no present need for anything larger. But he is sure that the monsters he has in mind can be constructed without trouble. A 25 million-kw. distilling plant would suck in a river of sea water and gush out i billion gallons of fresh water a day at about 10? per 1,000 gallons. This is enough for a city of 4,000,000 people, and the cost is just about what New York City pays for water brought down by gravity from the rainy Catskill Mountains only 70 miles away...