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Word: nasality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Allergy sufferers are now treated with antihistamines, which temporarily block the immune response, as well as steroid nasal sprays and inhalers, which reduce inflammation. But more effective help may be on the way. Scientists have synthesized bits of protein molecules that prevent immunoglobulin E antibodies from setting off an allergic reaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stop That Germ! | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...draws it into his mouth, and presses it up against the ridge behind the front teeth. It is an exercise against the tongue-lolling tendency that Inman-Ebel says characterizes 70% of Southern speakers. She says many Southerners suffer not just from forward tongue carry but also from unwanted "nasal emissions" (or twang), "restricted mandibles" ("a big phrase for talking with your mouth closed") and "oral-facial muscular imbalance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chattanooga: How Not to Talk like a Southerner | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...other dishes for contrast, but not enough of the dried tangerine peel comes through to lift it to the top of the class. It's a good serving and a good dish, but the best of these use a simpler sauce, with more red pepper to open special nasal passages that are then messaged by the citrus aroma...

Author: By Robert Nadeau, | Title: The Painted Dish | 1/22/1988 | See Source »

...other dishes for contrast, but not enough of the dried tangerine peel comes through to lift it to the top of the class. It's a good serving and a good dish, but the best of these use a simpler sauce, with more red pepper to open special nasal passages that are then messaged by the citrus aroma...

Author: By Robert Nadeau, | Title: The Painted Dish | 1/15/1988 | See Source »

...When the President does show up, the result is what one network official calls a "feeding frenzy," with flying elbows, shouts, roars, groans. Reagan could shut it off with a stern finger-pointing. Harry Truman would have cut the bunch down to pips and squeaks with one of his nasal tongue-lashings. It used to hurt good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Mick Jaggers of Journalism | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

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