Word: gushing
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...real job: by 1939 Trans-Canada's Lock-heeds whizzed all over the Dominion, kept a fabulous 98.1% of all schedules. Then came the call P.G. had waited five years to hear-the U.S. wanted him back. The company: Boeing. The situation: terrible. Waterlogged with the first gush of World War II aircraft orders. Boeing had a rheumatic production line, a small scatter-trained working force, a two-year deficit of $3,800,000 (caused mostly by huge development and experimental costs...
...patient, a middle-aged woman, was dying. She had just been brought in to the Jewish Hospital in Alexandria, Egypt. She was a victim of Addison's disease, a slow decline of the adrenal glands which cap the kidneys, gush forth the hormone cortin and the supercharging adrenalin when the nervous system signals "Emergency!" No synthetic hormones or drugs had been able to save...
...Ginger Rogers did not "gush a tribute to her mother." She gave a heartwarmingly real and simple word of appreciation and homage to her nearest and dearest, which moistened the eyes of the toughest audience in the world...
...greater precision with dialogue, and only Richard Hughes has written so well of the behavior of children. Without one line of comment, Williams makes clear "social significances" which the authors of Middletown can only bumble over. With scarcely a skid into deliberate lyricism, whole chapters become lyric. Dickens without gush, Dreiser without fat, Lardner without cynicism, might combine to approximate it. On his subtle, flexible, nonliterary monotone, Dr. Williams seems to carry, without gasp or gesture, the whole load of daily living...
...open a bitter dispute of long standing between physicians and surgeons. Ulcers of the stomach, most doctors believe, are caused by too much acid in the digestive juices. Too much acid corrodes the stomach lining at sensitive points, leaving a raw wound. But why some people have a constant gush of acid, instead of a gentle trickle at mealtime, is a mystery to doctors. Certain it is that tobacco and alcohol do a delicate stomach no good. Many authorities hold that ulcers are the fruits of temperament, for only worrying, sensitive, high-strung people are affected. Chief choice that confronts...