Word: tubercular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mother once said Marianne took to London pop life as if she "had been shot out of a machine gun." Tubercular as a child, she was sent to convent school by her parents after they divorced. She was in her teens when, in 1964, she dropped plans to attend Cambridge University and hit the pop scene. Six years later, she had left Mick Jagger and developed a heavy habit. "I was a registered heroin addict," she says. "I lived on the streets for two years." She went through periods when she managed to reclaim herself, others when she just gave...
Someth May distinctly remembers his mathematics tutor at a private school in Cambodia (now Kampuchea). He was a thin man with short gray hair who drove around town on a "rusty old sky-blue Mobylette." It made a terrible noise that his laughing students likened to a "tubercular cough." He always dressed simply, allowed no jokes and demanded punctuality, but he was a popular teacher who never punished his charges. At the end of each lesson, the mild man in sandals generally delivered a brief lament for the corruption of their society...
...enchanted castle that surrounds them with images of their beloved. All the sisters find beauty in duty, fulfillment in filth. One nun, ministering to lepers, consumes flakes of a diseased man's skin as if it were the Eucharist. Later another nun tastes the dying Therese's tubercular sputum and makes of it a sacrament of ecstatic commitment. To Cavalier, these acts have a spiritual and physical grace, for they are outward signs of the sisters' bond. In the purest love -- worldly or divine -- nothing is impossible, nothing is impure...
...ventured that "I came along when you could hear what was wrong with a motor 90% of the time. Good ears and 50 cents'll get you a cup of coffee these days, if you shop around." As a gorgeous P-38 rattled down the field, Buchanan called its tubercular chorus "music" and gave thanks aloud for "people with the kind of money to keep these things going...
From scattered western literature, for example, Cassidy has gleaned the definition of an Arizona tenor as a coughing tubercular. In Georgia, an Arab, pronounced Ay-rab in the northern part of the state and slurred to Urb in the south, can mean an urchin, while for some Baltimoreans, an Ay-rab is a bookie who operates out of his pocket on the street. To a Missouri youngster, Boston can be a marbles game in which the shooter need not knuckle down, but to a Pacific Northwest Indian, a Boston was any white American. And in a black ghetto like Watts...