Word: chews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, with the Hedin case to chew on, Stockholm's newspapers had lost some of their interest in American "gorillas" and the Armpit Artillery Case...
...Chlordane sprayed on floors, foundations and walls every seven days until the first frost might bring them under control. But until colder weather, many Chicagoans will continue to share their homes with crickets. And, in lieu of their preferred diet of grass and grain, the crickets will continue to chew on the lace curtains and starched clothing of their helpless hosts...
Guderian & Hitler. One thing that occurred was the firing of Guderian. Hitler had bitten off more than he could chew and, claims Guderian, he alone among the generals had the guts to tell him so. If Guderian is to be believed, he alone stood up to Hitler, begging him to be satisfied with limited objectives, finally demanding a withdrawal in Russia and an armistice with the West...
Once the wife is with child, a Kogi man can throw himself without reserve into the male community's fervid philosophical life. He gathers nightly with other men in a big conical ceremonial house to chew coca leaves and listen to the mama extoll the merits of inactivity and incuriosity, the Kogi ideals. The drug dispels the physical and sexual hunger that the Kogi man despises; at his nightly talk fest, he is content...
Follies with Grace. Author Thurber's own start in life came at the hands of Midwife Margery Albright, who rates, and gets, one of the most endearing portraits in the Album. Aunt Margery "knew where sour grass grew, which you chew for dyspepsy, and mint, excellent for the naushy, and the slippery elm . . . for raw throat and other sore tishas." Contemptuous of doctors, she cured her husband of fever by forcing a broth of sheep droppings down his protesting gullet. For stubborn pregnancies she blew powdered tobacco "up one nostril of the expectant mother," and so brought...