Word: vomited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vodka with his roistering friends, glass for glass, without losing a shred of dignity. She could sit placidly through wild banquets where the big joke of the evening might be a string of boiled mice slyly hidden in the cabbage soup, a trick that made some of the revelers vomit on the floor-"which capped the joke though it made things slightly unsanitary for the guests who would later fall on the floor...
Louis Fischer's indictment of the Nation (circ. 37,425) echoed an indictment of the New Republic (circ. 37,253) made some weeks earlier by Contributing Editor Varian Fry, who said on resigning: "After reading your editorial [on Russia] I felt as though I wanted to vomit." Last week Fry found a dish more to his taste. He took over the editorship of Common Sense (which claims over 15,000 circulation) a splinter-leftist monthly whose special recipe for Russia includes a strong-as-curry flavor of skepticism...
...discharged which foods they disliked, which ones they would actually refuse to eat. His discovery: while the normal men declared themselves willing to eat even the foods they disliked, the neurotics recoiled with tight-clamped jaws from such things as "quivering" gelatin, "slimy" oysters, oatmeal ("It reminds me of vomit...
...marks, half an inch deep. Back on the raft, Nagurney had his arm bandaged, but he was not finished. A lieutenant (j.g.) had become delirious and had taken a swag of sea water. Nagurney pounced on him, rammed his finger down the officer's throat to make him vomit. The lieutenant bit Nagurney's finger. Nagurney's summation: "I guess I'm the only guy that's ever been bit by a shark and an officer the same...
Five Chicago chemists disturbed the case with cries of "Hoax!" But the next night 17 families on one block reported that they had been gassed. Victims continued to say the mysterious substance made them vomit and sometimes affected the use of arms & legs...