Word: tuberculars
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...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...
...daredevils in front of Kirkland lofting footballs skyward as tree limbs crashed to ground nearby. In Adams House, residents feted Gloria with wine, cheese and Beethoven in the lower common room. And down by the Charles, Gloria's admirers were practicing the backstroke. No one dares dive into the tubercular river muck even on sunny days. But during a hurricane...
Orwell's wife died in 1945, during surgery for uterine tumors. The widower was 41, tubercular, and left with an infant son, Richard, recently adopted. Loneliness, the responsibility of a child and the prospect of his own death drove him to propose marriage to a series of flabbergasted women. He wrote one, after two meetings, "You are young and healthy, and you deserve somebody better than me: on the other hand if you don't find such a person, and if you think of yourself as essentially a widow, then you might do worse-i.e., supposing...