Word: chews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guests drifted back, reported that the vote seemed to be going for South American beef. Mr. Wallace continued to chew his duck complacently...
...esophagus, and the scar tissue which formed there permanently closed it, so that no food could pass to his stomach. Surgeons had made a neat little hole in his stomach wall, inserted a rubber tube. Mr. V.'s method of eating was necessarily messy: he would first chew his food to enjoy the flavor, then spit it into a syringe, insert the syringe into his tube, and thus fill his stomach. Through the tube Dr. Carlson could observe, to his heart's content, Mr. V.'s sometimes quiescent, often restless stomach. For 13 years...
Charlie Cottar was the first man to chew cut plug in East Africa. It awed the natives. So did his exploits as a hunter. He kicked a water buffalo in the rump to make it face his gun. He choked a leopard to death. Once he took a leopard cub home and raised it as a pet. When the leopard grew up he took it with him on hunting trips. It would follow him like a Scottie. One night he woke up in his tent with a leopard breathing on his face, getting ready to spring. Charlie Cottar felt...
...gave him their money to invest and sent others to him. His church affiliations were helpful too; several ministers advised members of their flock to put their worldly goods in his care. All in all, he acquired over 160 clients, among them such distinguished old Philadelphia names as Biddle. Chew, Bullitt, Gest, Truitt, Pilling. During the parlous days of New Deals I and II they were gratified at their lucrative returns from "Honest Bob" Boltz's private...
...last week 20 of the pioneers had formed a syndicate, prepared to stake out their claims in Mexico City. Their proposal: if Avila Camacho would undo some liberal reforms of his great & good friend ex-President Cardenas, they would give chicle-growing Mexico $100,000,000 to chew on. "Steps necessary to the economic rehabilitation of Mexico" included 1) lifting immigration bars to bring in skilled labor, 2) revision of expropriation laws to guarantee foreign investments, 3) reorganization of the nationalized railroads, 4) mechanization of farms, 5) a network of five U. S. highways converging on Mexico City...