Word: vomitive
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...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...
...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...
...heroine sleuth with brains, courage and a cute boyfriend. Her editor later claimed authorship of the books--saying she had outlined the plots and heavily edited the manuscripts--thus creating another mystery. But Benson was not irked. "I'm so sick of Nancy Drew," she once said, "I could vomit...
...Felix P. Johnson ’03 dipped a chocolate-chip cookie into his screwdriver last night. “It’ll taste really good,” he mumbled to horrified onlookers at Sandrine’s. Subsequent chemical analysis of Johnson’s vomit cannot determine if the cookie, the alcohol or the consumption of both together was most responsible for his subsequent bistro-soiling regurgitation...