Word: liverish
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Wilted and liverish, his famed bounce almost gone, Nikita Khrushchev sweated grimly through the final week of his state visit to Egypt. He barely glanced at the Karnak temples, passed up the German-built steel mill near Cairo and even the star belly dancer at the Nile Hilton who, in deference to the Russian visitors, obeyed the usually ignored regulations by being swathed in silk from neck to ankles. Khrushchev's humor less, polemic speeches and their end less translations bored dwindling crowds in Cairo, Port Said and Alexandria...
Admirers of those cleverly nasty satires that Aldous Huxley wrote in the '20s and '30s were certain that one day the master's first name would pass into common usage as an adjective: if someone woke up feeling aldous, he would be liverish, cold to the touch and awfully, awfully acute. So it might have happened, except that a time came when Aldous did not feel aldous any more; he felt thomas-henry. And old T. H. Huxley, the novelist's grandfather, was a solemn teacher, not a satirist. The result was that after the aldous...
...unusual intensity, Stevenson sought to accent the positive, reassuring Latin America in particular that the U.S. had no intention of reviving Yankee imperialism, but was acting in the interests of freedom after extreme, prolonged, unceasing provocation. He ridiculed the shrill contention of Raül Roa, Castro's liverish little ambassador, that the invaders were scum, hired mercenaries...
...also privately believe - that a newspaper is the soul of its city. To Cornelius Tyler, the narrator of Newspaperman Hough's dour novel, the truth is evident, and so is the fact that like other souls, a newspaper can be sold. Well into his 80s and a touch liverish, Tyler writes bitterly - but with enough sense to know why he is bitter - about the decay of a New England newspaper that he once edited, and of the deterioration of the town it served...
...hero of at least 44 romans policiers by Georges Simenon and generally conceded to be one of the most believable bloodhounds in the literature. Plain, paunchy, respectable, he has the shrewdness as well as the looks of a village grocer; and in this film he is played to the liverish life by Jean Gabin...