Word: phlegm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before his epiphany, Benedict's Scrooge is a character reminiscent of a man clearing his throat and phlegming up mucous. The phlegm is all gone by the end, and a jolly, giddy, bright and shiny Scrooge emerges to love and be loved...
...scalding, large picture of the sea. Huge splashes of thick blue paint covered the canvas, rearing out in small pinnacles, and returning into piquant troughs. My expression of bewilderment drew the shop owner--a frail foetus by appearance, in fact a middle-aged man--who collected his phlegm with a unappealing gurgle...
...sprayed grass seed on the Quad yesterday, and now I'm sick. I want to know if you are going to spray any more this year." I added a couple of anguished, phlegm-filled hacks for emphasis...