Word: hissing
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...with my pride came snobbery. Put any overweight person within my line of sight and let the jokes, jaunts and taunts begin. To the fat person requesting extra mayonnaise on his sandwich, I’d hiss to myself, “Do you like clogging your arteries?” To the fat people lining up at McDonalds for a super-sized snack, I derisively thought, “You should be banned from this restaurant and forced to run a mile!” To the fat person taking the escalator, I would quietly and cruelly propose...
Earlier that same year, Harvard Law School graduate Alger Hiss was sentenced to prison for almost four years after lying under oath about his associations with Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist...
...with ground-shaking booms, and the shockwaves pressed me into the turf. But much more frightening were the anti-aircraft shells, which fizzed about - some along the ground, some in the air - in lethal balls of orange flame. A few of the rockets took off with a great hiss, like supercharged Chinese fireworks...
...around the ward a few times. But just down the hall is another victim who symbolizes the damage this still dimly understood disease can do. The 43-year-old man has been in the hospital for a month. Now, he lies unconscious, the only sound in his room the hiss and puff of the respirator keeping him alive. A nurse lifts the sheet, revealing a wasted, waxen-yellow body. "He will probably die," says a duty doctor impassively. "We've used all the resources of the hospital, but his chances are very slim...
...downstream, a string of four burst into a bruised sky that was looking angrier by the moment. Each tiny eruption was greeted with a jubilant roar, like a kickboxing crowd hailing a series of withering knee strikes. The lights looked a bit like exploding flares, though there was no hiss or smoke, no sparkling arc back to earth. To a cynic like myself, they looked indisputably man-made. But to the believers?gathered in the tens of thousands along the riverbank?this was the breath of the Naga, the mythical serpent of Buddhist lore that many Thais believe haunts...