Word: spleening
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...When his cancer was diagnosed in August 2006, doctors said he had maybe a few months. He went through an aggressive course of treatment, surgery, chemotherapy; but a year later the disease had spread to his liver and spleen, and he was told it was terminal. A popular computer-science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, he delivered his "Last Lecture" on September 18, 2007. It was a university tradition for popular professors to think hard about what mattered most to them and distill their ideas as though they had only one message left to give to the generation that followed...
...scientists administered both vaccine types to guinea pigs and found TB symptoms in only one percent of lung and spleen tissue from animals receiving the aerosal treatment, compared to five and 10 percent for those that had been injected...
...April 20, 1999 Richard Castaldo, then 17, was eating lunch on the lawn with Rachel Scott when Harris and Klebold attacked. They killed her and shot him in the arm, chest, back and abdomen, damaging his lungs, kidney and spleen. A spinal cord injury will confine him to a wheelchair for life...
Fifty years ago this week, the idea of Europe was set to paper, on a continent unsettled but past the worst of the postwar period. The air was clear of sulfur if not spleen. Ireland was a small rock in the North Atlantic made relevant only by its cultural totems and ever increasing diaspora. In Berlin a chasm was opening up between East and West--the partition of lives, fortunes and fates. In the global struggle between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., between freedom and totalitarianism, Europe was the fault line and the front line. Old Europe was being rebuilt...
...great comic effect.Kevin Barlowski, a senior at Emerson, is one of these cast members. There is a big difference between telling a funny joke and being funny, being a source of humor rather than a conduit for it. As Richie, Barlowski’s humor came straight from the spleen (the funniest internal organ I can think of). As a result, “Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love”—a strange song that is mostly about puberty (disclaimer: I have no idea what this song is actually about)—is the show?...