Word: ambrosia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pedro's Cow. In the more advanced villages, the Apostles had no great problem. In others, a week of education usually did the trick. Everyone was invited to a free movie, comic books were passed out to all children, telling the absorbing story of Pedro, Ambrosia, their little daughter and their cow. First the cow gave buckets of milk, and the little girl had dolls and shoes. Then the cow got aftosa: Pedro's daughter became sad, skinny and barefoot. Finally came vaccination and the happy ending...
...grew so thickly at the water's edge that his ships could not land. The air was scented with flowers, gums, resins, wet wood, rotting leaves, redolent barks and fruits. Because it smelled good (and with a playful passing bow to Saint Ambrose), Amerigo Vespucci named the land "Ambrosia," and sailed southward to find the passage to India...
...competitive Army examination, was commissioned a second lieutenant Nov. 30, 1912. Less than a year afterward, on border duty with the 14th Cavalry in Texas, he saw his first action. In official words, he "pursued and captured a party of ammunition smugglers Sept. 13, 1913, near San Ambrosia Creek...
...promiscuous sexual life of the giant ragweed (Ambrosia trifide)and other species again last week brought tears to the eyes of several million U.S. hay fever sufferers. In the next few weeks a good million tons of ragweed pollen will drift imperceptibly over the U.S. seeking mates...
...even that situation would be economic ambrosia compared to the potion we would have to swallow when the war is over and the government expenditures sag from something over fifty billions of dollars to a meagre ten billion. The big post-war problem will be filling in that forty billion dollar gap. Unless there is enough private investment and consumer spending to fill it in, we will experience a gum-shoe stagnation that will make 1929 look like prosperity without the corner. We won't be able to fill it in unless new outlets for investment are opened...