Word: boil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Black Hopes.' The pot was almost to a boil. In Washington, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and other Negro organizations sat on Attorney General Biddle's doorstep, demanding proper legal backing for the Court's decision. They would keep after him; this was an issue not lightly to be evaded, or easily stalled off. In Dallas, a Negro Baptist preacher filed as a candidate for the Dallas County school board. His alarmed white opponents used paid newspaper ads : "Vote the white ticket straight." In South Carolina, a Negro Citizens Committee raised more than...
...Southerners in Congress are already overheated by the long States' rights wrangling during the soldier-vote-bill debate. They have been brought to a boil by the Supreme Court decision. Now they face a bill authored by New York's Communistic Vito Marcantonio. They are ready to oppose it with 1,000 amendments, no less-and with weeks on weeks of unrestrained oratory, pro & con everything in sight...
...Salmonella. According to Dutch law, duck eggs cannot be used in commercial preparation of food or drink, nor kept where food is being prepared, since the outsides of eggshells are even more likely to be infected than the yolks. Dutch duck eggs must be stamped: Ducks' eggs-boil for ten minutes. Germany has a similar...
...would pop into sight with a squealing shriek that sent some groundlings dashing for shelter, sure that a heavy bomb was screaming down near by. As it whisked overhead the sound changed to something like "a giant whistling teakettle on the boil." It disappeared over the far horizon before you could say "knife." After a while, neighborhood people got used to it, even gave it a nickname: "The Squirt...
...find that the California American Legion is promoting a racial purge. I'm putting it mildly when I say it makes our blood boil. . . . We shall fight this injustice, intolerance and un-Americanism at home! We will not break faith with those who died. . . . We have fought the Japanese and are recuperating to fight again. We can endure the hell of battle, but we are resolved not to be sold out at home...