Word: vomitive
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...afternoon of the second day, as spotter planes wheeled overhead and tear-and vomit-gas bombs popped wildly, Hong Kong's Acting Governor Edgeworth B. David at long last ordered British troops into the troubled areas, soon swept the rioters off the streets. In the debris stretcher-bearers found a shoe containing a human foot. There also were 47 dead, almost all of them rioters destroyed by the terror they had fed. Nearly a hundred stores and buildings had been sacked and burned, and a pall of the smoke of burning loot hovered over Kowloon. Governor David ordered...
Doctors have found that-for unknown reasons-radiation victims who vomit almost immediately after exposure are almost sure to die, and those who do not vomit at all are almost certain to survive. This fact led Utah's Pharmacologist Herbert L. Borison to conclude that vomiting may hold the key to the process that causes death from radiation...
...owner, but what you'd call an anti-dog lover . . . and I believe in leash laws [June 27] wholeheartedly . . . Our dog stays at home-he does not tramp through vegetables and flowers, relieve himself on strangers' lawns, vomit on back porches, tip garbage pails or roll in manure -nor, might I add, does he bark incessantly for no good reason . . . As delinquent children are the offspring of lazy parents, so are delinquent dogs the product of so-called "dog lovers," who find it easier to let the neighbors supervise their canine friends' activities...
...number of poisons used in the modern home. This is no mean trick because of the multiplicity of trade names. Poisonous components are listed with antidotes and other treatments. Parents who telephone a hospital emergency room crying that a child has swallowed poison are told to make the youngster vomit if possible (by tickling the throat with a spoon handle). Then they should take the child and a sample of the poison (the vomitus will serve in a pinch) to the hospital right away. There, the old-fashioned stomach pump is still the mainstay of treatment...
...pills contain standard barbiturates and an added safety factor, pentylenetetrazol. A powerful nerve stimulant, the safety factor counteracts the depressant effect of too much barbiturate, and long before the goofball addict drifts into euphoria or the would-be suicide passes out, pentylenetetrazol causes the unhappy user to vomit his medicine...