Word: alcoholized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believed in thrift, personal integrity, personal independence and the necessity of toil; he abhorred with equal fervor, tobacco, alcohol and ostentation. His favorite dishes were tripe and pig's feet. Although he was an officer of 43 companies and corporations, he shared a small, low-ceilinged office in Boston's museum-like State Street Trust Co. with his secretary (who comes from Illinois). He contemplated buying a new hat as reluctantly as he would have considered selling the house he had built in Concord...
...cutting certain sympathetic nerves in the chest, which stops angina pain without harmful effects; Chicago's Surgeon Jacob P. Greenhill said that a similar operation on abdominal sympathetic nerves often gives permanent relief from pain in cancer of the uterus and other pelvic organs. Also effective: an alcohol injection in the spine...
...this little man almost overnight became a unifying tide and took office as millions sang "Blessed Be The Tide That Binds." For one of the few times in the country's history the People's Ticket was victorious. Political experts were befuddled, news editors swore off alcohol...
Bigger & Better. After four drab war seasons, the football weekend was back. The Big Game was again something to anticipate, prepare for, and see-in a slight haze induced by sentimentalism, alcohol, and the sight of thousands of chrysanthemums on fur coats...
...food situation is so bad that restaurants in small towns have only two items on the bill of fare: pea soup and boiled potatoes. Coffee and sugar are practically unheard of even in swank black-market restaurants. Clothing is made from wood pulp, liquor (schnapps) is distilled from wood alcohol, most automobiles are woodburning...