Word: brine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet below the surface of the Mediterranean. The plentiful run-off from the Lebanon Mountains flows into the northern end of the rift near Lake Tiberias (the Biblical Sea of Galilee), then south through the Jordan River, and is finally lost in the Dead Sea's heavy brine...
...Seven brine-stained Liberty ships steamed eastward across the Pacific toward the U.S. They were carrying home the same Army cargoes they had been taking to the Philippines; the Army decided it had enough there already. Last week, in mid-Pacific, the wireless sang out another order: turn west again and set a course for Shanghai...
...literary than lively and neglects its crass possibilities as melodrama. The exceptions provide an anthology of eminently nasty creeps and jolts. The sudden snort of a horse is timed to scare the daylights out of you; there is a grisly shot of Lugosi's slaughtered head, distorted beneath brine ; and the last passage in the picture is as all-out, hair-raising a climax to a horror film as you are ever likely...
...begins to run. No matter how thirsty the patient gets, he should drink very little water. This is the absolute contradiction of a favorite cold recipe. Dr. Adler says no harm is done by his salt-the body already contains 30 times that much. Only drawback: for some people, brine is an emetic...
...Southerners saw red, or New Dealers cheered, Henry Wallace's speech was the first that riveted the delegates' attention. It was blunt, brave, tactless. It easily explained why Henry Wallace was the best-loved and best-hated man in the Stadium. Southerners got a heaping dose of brine in their open wounds as Henry Wallace, no longer ill at ease, rubbed in the word "liberal" eleven times in his brief platform appearance...