Word: vomitive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hysterical. Then to himself: "You've come this far down for this? Let's get organized." He began walking a procedural-square search, found himself after two 90° turns on a country road. A dozen cars passed him as he stood on the road, wet, bloody, vomit-stained and haggard, and waving feebly. Finally a car slowed ("Stop," a small boy cried to his father, "there's a jet pilot standing in the road!"), took him to a country store, where he collapsed on the floor while waiting for an ambulance to carry...
...sympathetic French priests and lawyers they had consulted. Several of the Algerians were tied naked like animals on a spit and subjected to successive electrical charges through electrodes attached to their lips and genitals. Others, says La Gangrène, were plunged head down into buckets of water, vomit and urine while their interrogators stood by laughing...
...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...