Word: bunge
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...Florey reported the treatment of old wounds with draining sinuses. They were filled with penicillin solution and stoppered with a rubber bung. The solution was changed twice a day. Of eleven wounds which had persisted for three months to twelve years, seven healed in four weeks...
...Bung Young was the real prima donna. He carried on the golden bull (a vital part of the scene), carried it off, came back on, went back off, brought back the bull, and, in general, made a cynosure of his sinecure...
Three of us, Harry Newman, "Bung" Young, and I, applied at the same time, and Paul told us he would get us jobs together. Unfortunately, we boasted of our Three Marx Brothers ideas too widely and told several people of our intention to experiment with unusual sound vibrations by applying our spears to the sopranos. Someone must have tipped off the Met, because we were given different costumes and separated on the stage...
...soldiers. Harry was a soldier in what I called the Rainbow Division, evidently founded by the color-loving Joseph during his stay with the Pharaohs. His tunic was a thing of radiant beauty if viewed from after, and his helmet shimmered in the African glare of the kleig lights. Bung was a nobody, a gray sort of individual with no color at all in his makeup. We sneered at him as a useless character, but he was to get his revenge...
...barrel-chested ex-bartender who knows that there is more than one use for a bung-starter. A New Jersey Governor once described him as "one of the real forces in American life." Mr. Fay's forcefulness became a matter of interest to a grand jury in Syracuse...