Word: vomited
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...close race took so much effort that Davies had to fight the urge to vomit on the medal stand, but she maintained a composed image...
Hilary had good reason to be concerned: her mother wasn't eating. Ginny had a gag reflex every time she put food in her mouth. Some mornings she was unable even to brush her teeth without thinking she would vomit. About the only thing she could force down was Carnation Instant Breakfast--the same thing she gave Hilary after the orthodontist tightened her braces. Ginny was slender to begin with from years of power walking, but now the weight was melting off her twiggy body. By December she had lost 29 lbs. In hopes that humor might defuse some...
...year-old narrator of Ed Lin's edgy debut novel Waylaid is the only child of Chinese immigrants. He spends all his spare time working at his family's ramshackle hotel on the New Jersey shore. The summer guests are "Bennys"?crude young Italians from New York City who vomit in the hallways and copulate in the pool. In the lean winter months, the family rents rooms to hookers and their clients. Lin's unnamed narrator mans the front desk at night and cleans the mattresses, giving him plenty of impetus to do what 12-year-old boys do: wonder...
...from a Japanese airplane, or that his village in central China's Hunan province had fallen victim to World War II's most devastating germ warfare attack. He knew only that first the rats died, then the people died?often covered with purple splotches and lying in their own vomit. Locals called it the "rat plague." In fact it was the bubonic plague?the Black Death that killed a third of Europe's population in the 14th century?revived and spread by the Japanese military. Huang, now 79, was lucky back in late 1941 when a friendly doctor pulled...
MALODORANTS Working for the Pentagon, the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia has formulated smells so repellent that they can quickly clear a public space of anyone who can breathe--partygoers, rioters, even enemy forces. Scientists have tested the effectiveness of such odors as vomit, burnt hair, sewage, rotting flesh and a potent concoction known euphemistically as "U.S. Government Standard Bathroom Malodor." But don't expect to get a whiff anytime soon. Like all gaseous weapons, malodorants once released are hard to control, and their use is strictly limited by international chemical-weapons treaties...