Word: liverence
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...Vagabond Liver. On the auld sod of Dublin, Behan makes even less attempt at apology. "I'm addicted to drink," he announces calmly. "In the part of Dublin I come from it's no disgrace to get drunk. It's an achievement." Followed by a horde of slum urchins begging sixpence ("Their standard of living has gone up with mine; they used to be content with pennies"), his florid, stocky figure heads out for the boozer before n a.m. He "gargles" whisky and porter the rest of the day, while heaving beguiling blarney to friends and freeloaders...
They found that a molecule of ferritin, an iron-containing protein, is synthesized within five and a half minutes after its entry into the liver...
...handed pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals (1938-45) who won more than 20 games in the seasons of 1942 (National League Most Valuable Player), 1943 and 1944 pitching to his brother, Catcher Walker Cooper, as the Cardinals won three pennants and two World Series; of cirrhosis of the liver, complicated by a staphylococcal infection; in Little Rock...
...woman) were found to have been partly dismembered, apparently to make ritual meals for cannibals. Ten suspects were rounded up and they readily admitted murdering 34 victims, explained that they ate the hand muscles of their victims to gain the skillfulness of the murdered one, the heart and liver to acquire his courage, the sexual organs to gain his power. Like the famed Aniotas or leopard men, Belgian officials say, the murderers often wore hooded, waist-long cloaks of crocodile skin that left their arms free to seize and strike. The attacks mostly took place at dawn or twilight...
...lives in a rotting houseboat on the Thames and has painted some of the most outrageously great pictures of his generation, is released from Wormwood Scrubbs prison, where he has just spent a month on charges of "uttering menaces"-he had threatened to cut out his patron's liver, or something of the sort. He trots over to the nearest pub, puts the bite on the barmaid (Kay Walsh), a middle-aged drab with a face, as Cary expressed it, "as blank as a sanitary brick." But she observes that Guinness is nothing but a "dirty...