Word: haroosh
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...borrow the book's idiom, The Straight and Narrow Path is the tale of a great haroosh*in the village of Patrickstown, and it may be said without fear of successful contradiction that neither Barry Fitzgerald nor Spencer Tracy nor Bing Crosby nor John Wayne will bid for the role of the priest, if the book, by some unlikely chance, is made into a film...
Stories about a fatal kind of "battle shock" with no visible injury have caused further medical confusion. "There was a great haroosh in World War I about men showing all these symptoms but with no injury," he says, "so we looked for such cases in World War II. We never found one. Perhaps later examination showed that the man had had a brain concussion, or died from carbon monoxide produced by the bomb. So-called 'pure shock' may exist, but I haven't seen it. To me, so far, it's a bogy...
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