Word: adder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roar of the crowd's applause. Vice President Alben Barkley was inspired to a stirring attack on Republicans. Challenging the G.O.P.'s new campaign slogan, he cried: "Will those people who see in every tree frog a roaring lion, and in every angleworm a spreading adder, please rise and tell us what is statism...
...nastiness is touched off when a poor little orphan (Margaret O'Brien) goes to live with her rich, half-mad uncle (Herbert Marshall). An officious, adder-tongued little minx who detests practically everyone she meets, Margaret soon meets her match. Her crippled cousin (Dean Stockwell) turns out to be the same sort of brat. In the tantrum match that follows, the two youngsters give themselves (and the audience) a crashing good time yowling, screeching and smashing what appears to be a gross of studio crockery...
...adder and multiplier were largely the work of Charles Coolidge. Marshall Kinkaid was mainly responsible for the over-all design of the sequencing circuits. The input and output circuits were constructed by Richard Hofheimer...
...name for himself in British cinema (The Citadel, The Silver Fleet). In 1935 he made his only U.S. appearance, as Mercutio in the Katharine Cornell Romeo and Juliet. In 1939 he joined the Fleet Air Arm, "flew all day and never thought of anything. I was deaf as an adder and had a wonderful appetite." Last year he and his fellow flyer, Olivier, were released to revive the blitzed...
...South African Institute, which processes the dried venom received from snake catchers, produces antivenin, has sent off thousands of doses all over the world. (Puff-adder venom is also used as a coagulant in hemophilia.) A quick injection of serum has saved the life of many a soldier bitten by ugly horned vipers in the West African desert, bush-masters in Central America, kraits and king cobras on the Burma front and mambas in South Africa...