Word: spleened
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...discussing the effects of radiation on the human body, Tullis explained that no certain cure has as yet been found for excess exposure. He attached great importance, however, to the recent discovery that the lymph glands, the bone marrow, and the spleen are resistant to radiation...
...probably incurable social disease: he is a Giant fan. Most of the time he succeeds in keeping his secret to himself, but on those rare occasions when the Giants win a pennant, Hano suffers from unmistakable symptoms. He comes down with World Series fever. Years of frustration curdle his spleen; choleric misanthropy consumes him. The cure is drastic: he must spend an afternoon in the Polo Grounds bleachers snarling his defiance at the civilized world-pleading with a succession of Giant pitchers to skull a batter and "stick it in his ear," begging every Giant base runner to spike...
...Denver's dogs (pop. 36,000) on the loose and some like them on leashes. Until recently, the city council avoided a leash law. This year, with 654 dogbites reported by May, the issue went on the ballot. No other civic problem worked up so much sentiment and spleen. "Dogs that are tied up and fenced continuously will become excited and grieved," warned grieved, excited Attorney Philip Rossman, the Denver dog's best friend. "On behalf of Rusty, my old Irish setter," the Denver Post's veteran Statehouse Reporter Bert Hanna wrote a misty-eyed protest...
...Tornadoes may spread a rare disease, reported Meteorologist Nicholas Manos of the U.S. Public Health Service. Amid the dust they can pick up and spread is the fungus that causes histoplasmosis, a TB-like disease of the lungs, marked also by swelling of the liver and spleen...
While I played enough college football to receive a ruptured spleen and to know that it is seldom played as a game outside of high school, I'm still old-fashioned enough to think that blocking and tackling contribute more to the great player than kicking and slugging...