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Eliot P. Feldstein '88, a Quincy House residentwho was at the party, said that the house's thirdfloor was "a jungle." Erikson said one student wasfound "semi-conscious" near the third-floorstairwell lying in his own vomit. An ambulance wascalled, but by the time it arrived, the studenthad regained consciousness and refused to behospitalized...
...believe, is the most addictive popular drug of all, and crack is by far its most addictive form. "People fall desperately in love with this drug the first time they use it," says Dr. Arnold Washton, director of research for the National Cocaine Hotline. Unlike heroin users, who vomit and shake when they withdraw, crack addicts show few immediate physical signs of dependency -- at least at first. But they feel an overpowering yearning for more. Bouts of depression and irritability can lead to deep depression and paranoia. "I was afraid to be with it and afraid to be without...
...even hard-boiled can be overdone. Says Evan Hunter, who as Ed McBain has written more than three dozen books in the 87th Precinct series: "For me, 'hard-boiled' means not turning away from a dead body and going into the hall to vomit. It means going into a morgue and smelling a stench that makes you want to wash your hands for days." In short, unflinching realism, a misunderstood term. Says Elmore Leonard, the macabre ironist of crime and punishment: "If I were to ever write a private-eye story, and try to make it as realistic...
Predictably, most of the outcry against post-Noel exams comes from freshmen. Hah. There's reason enough for preserving the status quo. As Friedrich Nietzsche once said, we only grow through suffering and affliction. This is why 'shmen have Expos, the mixer, vomit-inducing Weld Hall keg parties and the Union salad bar. This is also why freshmen, by tradition, suffer through a semester of doing all the work, only to get C-pluses...
...women than men are bulimics, said Dr. Warren E. C. Wacker, the director of University Health Services, adding that 8 percent of Harvard women fall into this category. Bulimia is an eating disorder where people eat large amounts of food in a short period of time and then intentionally vomit...