Word: castor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fresh-as-a-breeze Annabella herself, according to Columnist Leonard Lyons, sent Rascoe a note saying: "Sorry I sickened you," and enclosing a bottle of castor...
There were smaller and subtler indications, bits of news grasped easily, eagerly by the people. To some 35,000 civilians went a handsomely illustrated catalogue of a sale of Air Forces materiel, from Engine parts to castor oil. Used jeeps had already made their appearance as civilian vehicles in Chicago; a dealer in Berkeley, Calif. advertised 16 used landing barges, cheap at $1,650 apiece. The U.S. people were driving more and faster: the accident death rate rose for the first time since Pearl Harbor...
Ordinary, earth-bound citizens can find: gasoline-electric generators, rubber hose, portable air compressors, tube bending tables, electric concrete drills, assorted hammers, miter boxes, saws, marlin spikes, drills and bits, wrenches, pliers, nippers, turpentine, castor oil, hinges, screws, nuts, bolts, washers ("Just What You've Been Waiting For!")-even typewriter ribbons and photograph albums. All goods are sold on the basis of bids...
...Italians. "The lesson which the Italians must take to heart is ... that a second-class Power cannot be built into a master race by rhetoric, grimaces, blackmail and castor oil, and that attempts to ride to conquest on the coattails of others will end in humiliation and disaster no matter which of the major contestants wins...
Dutch doctors have forced a dose of political castor oil down the throats of Holland's Nazi overlords. Furious because the doctors refused to join a Nazi-created Chamber of Physicians, the Nazis threatened them with penalties. Thereupon 6,200 Dutch doctors shut their offices, went on strike. They told Reich Commissioner Arthur Seyss-Inquart that they would have no part of a medical society that sponsored "deportation of the insane and sick persons and the sterilization of healthy people...