Word: vomiting
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...blue suit, changed to a costume featuring an exuberant bronze Shantung suit, gold-buckled crocodile shoes and piano-shaped diamond and onyx cuff links. These devices stole the show from Defendant Connor, grumpily denying he meant any serious harm: the columns were only "fair comment" on the "biggest sentimental vomit of all time," the fruity allusions just "part of the impression of confectionery which Mr. Liberace conveyed to me-oversweetened. overflavored, overluscious, and just sickening...
...hundreds of castaways found themselves choking in a slimy bath of fuel oil that blinded them, made them retch and vomit to utter exhaustion. Men on rafts were so tossed about that soon they were cut, bleeding and rubbed raw. Those in life jackets faced a different hazard: some of the jackets became waterlogged, sinkers instead of floats...
...variously composed of universities, small Southern towns, and writers' colonies in Arizona and New Mexico. Most of the little magazines are part of a post-war inflation for the avant garde. In the general confusion which gave culture the Beat, Silent, Sad, Brown, and Breathless Generations, art and intellectual vomit (the boundary has been transgressed) have prospered if not much improved...
That night Joke began to vomit. Her parents wrapped the vomit in newspaper and tossed it into the stove. Next morning Joke seemed all right and went off to kindergarten; her father threw the ashes from the stove on a backyard dump. A doctor, checking radium needles at the hospital, noticed that the tip of the one used on Joke (it had already been condemned because of oxidation at the junction of head and shaft) was missing. When it could not be found in the treatment room, out went the alarm...
...hero will probably get no better than pity, and the picture itself, apart from the high praise it deserves as a piece of cinematic craftsmanship, will inevitably inspire a more negative emotion. As the hero himself expresses it: "I can't eat as much as I want to vomit...