Word: retch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundreds of castaways found themselves choking in a slimy bath of fuel oil that blinded them, made them retch and vomit to utter exhaustion. Men on rafts were so tossed about that soon they were cut, bleeding and rubbed raw. Those in life jackets faced a different hazard: some of the jackets became waterlogged, sinkers instead of floats...
Around midnight, the clubs run out of liquor and every door on Prospect Street spews forth a jubilant stream of staggering sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Leaning on each other, singing, shouting, a few pausing at the gutter to retch quietly for a moment then loudly rejoining the buoyant inebriated throng, they totter off toward the campus or a cafe where they can calm down with a cup of coffee. The fraternal transport is now at its beatific height. Arm in arm they reel indifferent to traffic or the piercing cold; one lifts his hands to the frigid heavens and races...
...Noah is the man whom everyone trusts, Winner's other partner, Julius Penrose, is the man who mistrusts everyone. His is the scalded mind of the archskeptic who has supped so full of human follies that the race of man almost makes him retch. Crippled by polio, he has become a corrosive, nonstop monologuist with a tongue like a poisoned dart. Some of his more sardonic thrusts are directed at the Roman Catholic faith, which his wife Marjorie, a guilt-ridden sensualist of masochistic tendencies, is about to embrace. The bitterness of his remarks, including his view...
...vagueness of the report made many legislators join those who might have had something to gain by discrediting it--South Boston's Sen. John Powers said that it made him "retch inside"--and strengthened the charge that the Commission was merely crying wolf. Opposition to the report also weakened the effect of its positive conclusions about police laxity, the newspapers' cooperation, and occasional political collusion with gamblers...
This face-slapping marathon is a new low in educational folly. It causes one to retch. In the current and natural concomitant of the higher learning, it is hard to revive the pleasant memories of long ago. But there is hope the present trend toward higher spending will bring its own reward...