Word: yellowness
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...last week on Oriana Fallaci, the Coulteresque Italian journalist who has written that the "art of invading and conquering and subjugating" is "the only art which the sons of Allah have always excelled." Fallaci has said that Muslims "breed like rats," and she has complained that Muslims have left "yellow streaks of urine that profaned the millenary marbles of the Baptistery" in Florence. As it happens, it's illegal in much of Europe to say such outlandish things: Fallaci currently faces trial in Italy for defaming Islam. At least in the U.S., Coulter is not threatened with prosecution for being...
...bedside table was a familiar yellow and red tube and it was almost empty. Nitropaste is a transcutaneous cardiac nitrate - a form of the more familiar 'nitroglycerin' that heart patients put under the tongue to relieve anginal chest pains. They both work by opening up certain blood vessels. Because it is well absorbed through the skin, it's given by squeezing a little out - like a half-inch long squeeze of toothpaste - onto a piece of paper or plastic and sticking it onto the patient's skin. Patients usually can do this for themselves - that's why it was left...
...Other things were, too. Along with the black Royals and the reams of yellow foolscap we’d feed them, The Crimson newsroom of my era had inherited a strong sense of progressive tradition; the campus’s Vietnam-era turmoil was only a couple of four-year cycles behind us. We carried an activist torch, marched for divestiture, and protested the Carter-era revival of draft registration...
...Still, the ubiquitous yellow family from Springfield has consumed the lion’s share of Jean and Reiss’s careers...
...have worn his shoulder out, demanding ever higher pop-flies to field and harder ground balls to retrieve as the sunlight slowly disappeared, hours after we’d first left the house.Somehow we made do indoors. Two nights before a game he’d pull out his yellow legal pad and we’d go to work drawing up our plan of attack. Giddy with anticipation, I’d invariably have drawn up my own lineup hours in advance during soccer season. Our league held four-quarter games, and every player had to participate...