Word: nasalate
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Annnh! Annnh! Annnh! These aren't the sort of bells meant for your ears Nosirree. These bells assault the sinuses, a far more vulnerable site. After 60 seconds of feeling your nasal passages clear in unison with the alarms, it comes down to a choice between leaving your room and having your vocal cords returned to A-minor...
...week's end authorities could only hope that more victims would not turn up. They were worried, too, that the cyanide murders would encourage a new, over-the-counter terrorism that could be aimed at companies or random individuals. Already this year, someone tampered with eyedrops and nasal sprays sold in Los Angeles; at least ten people suffered burns, but no one died. The frightening truth, says FDA Deputy Commissioner Mark Novitch, is that there is no way to protect the public from people who do such things. - By Susan Tifft...
There are two principal forms of the disease. In tuberculoid leprosy, few bacilli are present, and the symptoms are pale, patchy spots on the face, hands and feet. In the more contagious, lepromatous form, many microorganisms are present in the skin and in nasal secretions; patches and lumps can occur all over the body, and the facial lines tend to deepen. Leprosy does not usually cause gross mutilations. But it can cause a numbness of the hands and feet that leads to accidental burning or mutilation of extremities. This is a source of the myth that leprosy causes parts...
...SATURDAY NIGHT in the Orpheum theater in downtown Boston, and a garishly dressed is assembled, swaying slowly back and forth to an old Montown number, which no one can remember. The house lights are dimmed, and five silhouetted figures make their way to their instruments. A nasal, almost adolescent voice comes out of nowhere...
...Zoditch in the A.R.T. production of Journey of the Fifth Horse. Grusin demonstrates here his ability to play a balding, affected, overweight Hollywood producer as well as a sour old reader in a 19th-century Russian publishing house. As the mother, Wilbur is appropriately fussy and matronly: Her high nasal whine sounds very good...