Word: spleening
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...plainclothesmen nosing into every stranger's business. At any sign of citizen anger, party officials respond quickly to keep the city quiet, fixing water mains or repairing broken heaters. The city's new technocratic mayor has permitted small, regular, controlled demonstrations at city hall to let citizens vent their spleen about unpaid pensions and missing salary checks. But there have also been at least two large, unauthorized protests in Shenyang. Internal memos have circulated among party leaders warning of strikes, police confrontation, widespread outbreaks of crime. But no significant pockets of dissent have formed among the people. "They...
...remember the splendid ventings of spleen: Taft-backer Everett Dirksen in 1952, thundering down from the podium at Ike-supporter Tom Dewey: "We followed you before, and you took us down the road to defeat!" And Senator Abe Ribicoff in 1968 denouncing "Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago!" as Mayor Richard Daley hurled back imprecations that amazed lip readers across the country...
...enzyme that manages Gaucher's disease, a rare genetic disorder that affects the spleen, liver and bones. Currently, the illness is treated with one of the world's most expensive drugs, derived from the human placenta...
...culture of machismo and ego, McCain says, Burke relies on patience. "She has these endless meetings. They're so frustrating it's unbelievable. Everybody vents their spleen. Everybody plants their feet in concrete," he says. "And then she begins to talk, spelling out the principles that everyone wants to preserve. After a while, the issue ripens out, and people begin to come to consensus, but it's a very painful process...
Named after William Sly of St. Louis University, who discovered the human disorder in 1973, Sly Disease affects many body tissues, including the bone marrow, joints, heart tissue, liver, spleen and brain...