Word: vomited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry VIII) is England's noblest monastic ruin. Yet it was not its ruinous beauty that most moved Elwes, but his sudden realization of the vivid religious life which once had flourished there. "Beauty," says he, "ought to live. Ruins, as ruins, always make me want to vomit. It seemed to me then that the stones of Fountains were bleeding...
...colored face; there was grime under his eyes and pasted into the wrinkles around his mouth and on his forehead. He wore a shirt that was once white; now it was black and yellow and there was spaghetti sauce over the left breast. His breath had the smell of vomit and cheap booze. Juke was unmistakably one of West Madison Street's citizens...
...Churchill," said the London Daily Worker last week, "has returned to his anti-Communist vomit." What Churchill had returned to was his Munich-era assertion that appeasement will not buy peace. The question had a new urgency in March of 1946, as spring girdled the earth with the possibility of military action and the probability of fresh diplomatic crises...
...keep: by July 1, the city's transit system would be $54 million in debt. Its power stations were just about gone (repair cost, over $100 million), its rolling stock worn and rattly, its tracks older than the Ancient Mariner, its stations full of old newspapers and old vomit...
...wrote on a portable desk with a lamp (almost the whole of Bar Chester Towers was so written). En route to Egypt, to conclude a Postal Treaty with the Egyptian Government, he wrote his way across the Bay of Biscay, pausing between paragraphs to rush to the rail and vomit...