Word: vomitive
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...concerns, go to Subway and carefully watch seven dollars an hour make your sandwich. Then, once your sandwich has been put in the plastic bag, think about how different you and the Subway employee are. Depending on whether you’d rather lose your appetite or vomit, do this before or after you’ve eaten...
...problem with this kind of activism is that it breeds passivity. Even if we do achieve a living wage, we are still left with a much more insidious problem—a service-oriented attitude. We expect that our dishes will be clean, that the puddle of vomit that appeared on the stairwell Saturday night will be gone by Monday morning, that getting five glasses of water is more efficient than refilling one. The dishwasher, chef and janitor may be getting a few dollars more on their checks, but has our community become more inclusive, its membership more complete...
...push through sweaty, nasty bodies to get anywhere. There were people dancing on the food-checker line. It was out of control in a bad way. People got physically hurt.” In addition, alcohol served in the House courtyard intoxicated partygoers who then clogged bathroom sinks with vomit. “You couldn’t wash your hands. It was just ridiculous,” Dow remembers...
...quite a show at the CityStep ball Friday night. After drinking a 12-pack of Tequiza on the Red Line ride into Boston, Logan headed straight to the Copley Plaza bathroom, where he spent the next three hours alternately urinating in and near the paper towel dispenser, vomiting, and resting his head in a pool of his own vomit. “This event is all about bringing the Harvard community together for a great cause,” he said as he was lifted into a gurney within Mass General Hospital. He later peed on a nurse...
...grabbed a pole and held on for dear life," even as the oddments of a skyscraper struck her. "I told God, 'I'm not dying today,' so I held on no matter how many bricks were hitting me. I felt ash go down my throat, so I made myself vomit because it was asphyxiating. My head was hurting from the hits, but I refused to lose consciousness." And she did not. She spent only one night in the hospital. One of the other EMTs with whom she worked died; another is missing...