Word: livid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...verge of scurvy." They have no reserve of healing "cement substances" in their blood, and not enough of the elements that build bones, teeth and cartilage. Since healing wounds of vitamin C-deficient guinea pigs have "inferior tensile strength, a disposition to gape ... a livid appearance, and a soft consistency," they rupture easily. Lack of vitamin C may also be a factor in causing human peritonitis, for bacteria easily "leak" into an abdominal wound unprotected by healthy, growing tissue. Deficiency of vitamin B hampers restoration of blood-volume after operation; lack of vitamin A may pave the way for mumps...
...Allison, who speaks Japanese, diplomatically confined himself to adding that the sentry "livid with rage . . . shouted at us in a most offensive manner," grabbed Mr. Riggs, tore the collar and some buttons from his shirt...
Outside the machine are 17 switches and three transformers, which are really dimmers. In the midst of the switches and numerous wires and plugs stands Mr. Scott. A flick of his fingers makes the box a livid red, a brilliant blue, a glaring yellow, an emerald green. He can turn on the three primary colors (remember your physics?) at once and produce nothing but white light with the combination...
Joyce's post-Ulyssean prose style is composed almost entirely of dream-scrambled verbalisms (Anna Livid Plurabelle, Work in Progress) which by some are highly touted as a significant experiment, seem to others merely words in a helter-skelter retreat from significance. Joyce himself used them sparingly in Pomes Penyeach (1927), eschews them entirely in Ecce Puer (1936), his single four-quatrain poem written during the last decade. His later poems, which in general hew to the line of modern Irish minor verse, in their essential scope are no advance over his earlier pseudo-madrigals. All arise from...
...appropriation for a new $112,000,000 TVA dam near Gilbertsville, Ky. -just across the line from Tennessee. Chairman Robert L. ("Muley"; Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee, who because a new tax bill would bear his name has been one of the hottest champions of Economy, grew livid last week when he learned that the House Appropriations Committee had halved a $5,000,000 Interior Department item for further work on the Shenandoah-Great Smoky Mountains Park highway-which runs through his district and close by his farm...