Word: nasalized
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Cimetidine owes its origin to the discovery that there are two types of receptor sites for histamine. The familiar site, associated with hay fever and other allergies, is in the nasal passages and nearby tissues. These conditions can be treated with a variety of widely prescribed antihistamines. But the drugs have no effect on the histamine receptors in the cells that secrete acid into the stomach...
Speaking in the soft nasal twang of his native Kentucky, Warren admitted that he wrote the poem as a response to a colleague's discussion of the frequent appearance of hawk-images in his poetry...
...does. But their tastes and preferences are not lightly ignored. Dolly knows that and says imploringly, "I don't want to leave the country. I want to take the country with me." Her voice has always been a high, accurate chirp that is sometimes tremulous with passion or nasal with determination or sweetly childlike with tenderness. Emotionally, it always cuts deep...
...most successful of the instrumental pieces, "Warszawa." Using piano, mini-Moog, Chamberlain and E.M.I. (don't even ask), Eno creates a work of majesty and spirituality. Medieval in feeling, with a bass drone borrowed from Russian liturgy, it is punctuated by Bowie's decent imitation of the sharp, nasal song style of Eastern Europe. You have the sense of sunlight glowing through the windows of a cathedral; gloomy, but at the same time gloriously transcendant and essentially redemptive...
...over too many years and a great deal of whisky and gin. New York's founding editor Clay Schuette Felker, 51, attended a public high school in Webster Groves, Mo., has never smoked and rarely drinks anything stronger than cambric tea. His accent remains stubbornly and glottally Midwestern nasal. He flunks the honk test...