_________The word obstreperous has appeared in six articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on March 5 in the Opinion essay “Luke Perry Had a Stroke and Died. I Had One and Lived” by Kara Swisher:By the time I’d showered and headed to the restaurant for breakfast, the symptoms were largely gone. Because he was actually a very good doctor, he insisted in an increasingly urgent tone that I go to the hospital right then. You have to get the blood flowing back to the part of the brain that is not getting it. So I listened, for once, sidelining the obstreperous little sister, and took a car to get an emergency M.R.I.

Source: New York Times May 02, 2019 06:00 UTC