Word: camphorated
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...renamed Bronzeville during World War II when its residents were interned, has been retaken by the Japanese, and is again a main gathering spot for 175,000 Japanese-Americans scattered around the county. A brand new, $12.6 million cultural complex provides reminders of home: a lush, still garden of camphor and golden-rain trees, a sleek theater for Japanese-language productions, a brick plaza for a snack of age tofu (deep-fried soybean curd) and a stroll...
...carefully cultivated an image of wholesome, All-American beauty ever since 1914, when Dr. George Bunting cooked up the first batch of Noxzema skin cream in a coffeepot in his Baltimore pharmacy. Originally intended as a sunburn remedy, the blend of clove and eucalyptus oils, lime water, menthol and camphor also proved to be an excellent skin cleanser. In 1929, Admiral Richard Byrd took it along on his expedition to the South Pole. G.I.s during World War II and the Korean War used Noxzema for shaving. Today, when skin-care products are the fastest-growing segment of the cosmetics business...
...funeral took place in New Delhi's Shanti Vana Park, less than 100 yards from a memorial to Nehru. The cortege arrived at 6:30 p.m., with the family riding in a jeep. There was only one slipup: Rajiv began to put incense and camphor on the body before the flag of the Congress Party (I) (for Indira) had been removed. When this was done, mantras were chanted and the pyre...
...Farm Owner Bob Evans, 60. In 30 years he parlayed a one-wagon, homemade sausage business into a $105 million sausage and restaurant empire in seven states. One restaurant is close by, and visitors eat there, buy hams from the adjoining country store, even take home Watkins Cream of Camphor liniment and working $65 potbellied stoves. Whatever money comes in offsets the day's expenses, in particular the piles of fried chicken catered free at contest's end. "Last year's losers" is the running joke...
...rigorously cut off from virtually any spontaneous contact with ordinary Chinese people. Diplomats and journalists in Peking are stuck away in "the far-off suburban quarantine station that passes for the foreign quarter." Enter a restaurant, and the foreigner is led away to "a special lounge smelling of camphor," where eating a meal feels "like indulgence in a solitary vice." There are also special stores, exhibits and train compartments, an organization that handles all problems from providing servants to air tickets, and even a beach resort where, except for top bureaucrats, the Chinese are rigorously excluded. What all this indicates...