Word: coils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bounced a flourishing black market. Renovators were paying junkmen $6.50 for used coil springs, were reselling them to retailers...
Squealed and squirmed, through a coil he wormed...
...Imagine how dull it is in once of those vacuum tubes--there's nothing in there at all. When he finally let me out, he got me going back and forth in a coil so fast that I got dizzy and got into a gas tube by mistake...
...ideas of cleanliness came into vogue, style was to keep everything wet with carbolic. Instrument tables were covered in towels wet with the acid, sponges were kept in it, the room was sprayed with carbolic acid until foggy. In those days catgut came in a five-foot coil to be soaked and sterilized by the doctors and "horsehair was obtained by going out to the ambulance stable and pulling out a handful from the tail of one of the horses...
...next seven and a half days were packed with equally nervous moments. His ship, last to leave Singapore harbor, was bombed with deadly efficiency by the Jap, was soon in flames. Yates McDaniel, propped against a coil of rope, took notes, stopping only to help fight the fires. A jam-packed lifeboat finally carried the oar-weary, bailing survivors to Bangka Island, five miles away. At dark, the tide so low that lifeboats could not float within a half-mile of the beach, the weary party began wading to deep water and rescuing launches from a nearby rubber plantation. Said...