Word: spleening
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...Games begin!" is what I say, I'll be waiting for it the whole day, And when the match comes on my screen, I'll scream, "On Tulsa! Go for the spleen!" And even if the Wave can not win, There'll be more ants for me to yell for again...
...Cisneroses, every moment with John Paul just now is precious. Suffering from asplenia syndrome, a condition in which a child is born with no spleen and a heart with two right atria, John Paul will undergo heart surgery next month, and his parents cannot be sure how many birthdays remain. The boy's heart, Cisneros reflects, does not even sound like a normal heart. "Most human hearts go ker-thump, ker-thump," he says. "His goes swish, swish, swish...
Viewing the image on a TV screen in his dimly lighted office three states away, Dr. David Forsberg noticed that something was wrong. "You could see a / rupture in the integrity of the spleen." He immediately recommended surgery; her bleeding organ was removed and her life saved. "In the middle of the night, it's reassuring to know that you're bringing your patients the best care available," says Dr. Tony Kusek, a country doctor -- and teleradiology enthusiast -- in Albion...
Just six months ago, a mad-as-hell voter enraged at the mess in Washington and disgusted by compromising politicians in both parties would phone his favorite radio-talk-show host to vent his throw-the-bums-out spleen. Now that same populist rage is dialing right into the political system -- right into the volatile center of the 1992 presidential race -- and mainstream politicians from Bill Clinton to George Bush are all but cursing the invention of toll-free telephone numbers...
...women. Each of us in our daily lives helps shape the cultural images and assumptions that define the limits of the permissible. In the case of racial bigotry, we see this clearly: civilized whites don't tell racist jokes or defend the virulent gabfests on talk radio as harmless spleen venting. Where violence and misogyny are concerned, though, men just don't seem to get it. Give up skin magazines, bimbo jokes, woman-bashing rock and rap? Join women on a march against domestic violence? Get real...