Word: spleening
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There was one difference, however: this time, their spleen was justified. Nevertheless, in their zeal to protest the incident, they have condemned the entire student body, and the adverse publicity has left the public feeling that Harvard undergraduates condone cross-burning as a good joke...
...enjoying his usual siesta, le petit Tho, armed with a sledge hammer and a Boy Scout knife, slipped into the air-conditioned bedroom. With one blow of the sledge hammer he smashed the Commissioner's skull. He plunged the knife several times into his chest and spleen, finally cut the Commissioner's throat, leaving the knife embedded in the wound. Le petit Tho then carefully rifled the Commissioner's effects, taking his watch, ring and pistol. He left the room, locking the door behind him. Downstairs he washed his shirt, took a shower, dressed and bicycled away...
Capital, by Karl Marx (May 1, 1887): "A man in a towering rage . . . [A] remarkable book . . . the result of pure psychological spleen . . . To follow [Marx's proposals] is to plunge us into chaos. But there are advocates of chaos...
Mediterranean anemia cannot be cured by iron treatments or removal of the spleen; it can only be relieved by transfusions of blood containing husky red cells. With good care and many transfusions, Ida grew up into a vivacious, healthy-looking girl. But when she married Raymond Donnelly, who works at a country club, doctors told her that she should never bear a baby...
When Dr. Selye injected rats with overdoses of ACTH, the animals quickly lost weight and developed abscesses of the lungs, kidneys, liver and spleen. No new infection-causing organisms had been introduced; it was what Selye calls "spontaneous infection" by bacteria, present before the injection, which multiplied when the excess of ACTH reduced the animals' resistance. Injections of STH caused the animals to gain weight, brought on no bacterial disease. When STH and ACTH were injected together, the STH acted like a safety catch and prevented the ACTH from triggering an explosive infection...