Word: blistering
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...next few weeks 6,000 huskies, sent out by lumber companies and forestry services, will take to the woods, armed for total war. The enemy: white pine blister rust, an incurable fungus infection that is spreading like a blitzkrieg...
...light ones. Many a Japanese was branded in stripes from the pattern on his shirt. The gay, flowered designs on the dresses of Japanese women were stenciled in charred exactitude upon their bodies. A mile and a half from the bomb, the flash of heat was strong enough to blister the ace or set a forest afire...
...tons), it kept up production of their basic components, such as chlorine. It also produced 35,000,000 gas masks for men, 39,000 for Army horses and mules, 1,400 for dogs. It turned out some 2,200,000 decontamination appliances, 162,000,000 tubes of anti-blister ointment...
...Several minutes later I was outside. All around, I found dead and wounded. Some were bloated and scorched-such an awesome sight, their legs and bodies stripped of clothes and burned with a huge blister. All green vegetation, from grasses to trees, perished in that period...
Since Archbishop Parker's day, many a good churchman has complained that the Table was outmoded. Year by year it began to look more oldfashioned. Some of the prohibited relationships now seem far from "incestuous and unlawful." But innovations take time. "He shall prick that annual blister, marriage with deceased wife's sister," was the musical complaint of the Fairy Queen of satirist W. S. Gilbert's lolanthe...