Word: spleening
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Hospital officials said Chamberlain was being kept under observation for "possible internal injuries," It is believed that he may have suffered a ruptured spleen...
With labor leaders, he said, things are different. While fully as aggressive and ambitious as business executives, they are able "to vent their spleen . . . [They] can get out and express their indignation...
...part of their life cycle in female Anopheles mosquitoes. The mosquito picks up the parasites from infected humans, nurtures them and injects them into fresh victims. The parasites run through the bloodstream of their victim, causing periodic fevers at the peak of their reproductive cycle; many lodge in the spleen, causing local pain...
...such a sorry shape. Though the House had whipped through all its major money bills by mid-April, the Senate had dawdled for months, still had $29 billion-almost three-fourths of the budget-to approve. Twice the House had extended the time limit. Last week, after venting its spleen, the House voted another extension rather than risk the alternative : payless paydays for some 2½ million federal employees...
...most interesting items in this month's Advocate are eight poems T. S. Eliot wrote for the magazine when he was at Harvard, which are reprinted in honor of his sixtieth birthday. In at least one of them--"Spleen"--there are traces of the point of view and the language that he developed later. And in all of them it is clear that T. S. Eliot was a writer and not a literary man. --Joel Raphaelson