Word: coppered
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...sent my wife to the garden, then I locked the back door, shut the windows and placed Jessie in the corner by the gas copper. I gave her a piece of chocolate to suck. I laid my Home Guard respirator beside me and turned on the gas. I played with Jessie and kissed her goodbye. Then I had to put on my respirator. She closed her eyes and then went limp...
Peggy Guggenheim, copper-rich patroness of the arts and collector of artists, was out two dreamlike paintings, an abstract sculpture and a utilitarian gewgaw. Incredibly stolen from her art gallery: Flat Landscape and Child of the Mountain by Paul Klee, an untitled chromium relief by Hans Arp, and a fancy bottle top wrought by Author Laurence Vail, her first husband...
...woman trouble there'll be Steve's secretary, a tasty Samoan dish named Feeta Feeta. Harder to handle will be Copper Calhoon, "not exactly a good girl, yet within the legal limits. She's the daughter of a Wall Street wolf and just as tough as her old man. It's much easier to make a gal a baddie than a goodie. My plots are complicated. You've got to read it every day so that you'll know what happens. Make it so they can't stand...
...evening. Dr. Thinh took down a French medical book from a row in his small private office, opened it to a chapter on hangings. Then he took a piece of thin copper wire, twisted it into a neat noose. Next morning, Buddhist Thinh, in whose religion suicide is the supreme reproach against unjust criticism, was found dead...
...expected, prices increased overnight on scarce materials and products being made at a loss. Procter & Gamble, and other soapmakers, jacked up wholesale soap prices an average of 50%. General Electric and Westinghouse led the way in upping small motors, refrigerators, washers, ironers, etc., from 10% to 60%. Zinc, copper, lead, and tin also zoomed. In the first two days of free trading, the prices of 28 such major commodities jumped (according to an OPA estimate) an average of 7.4%. Some of the leaps were fantastic. Example: glycerin, which had been controlled at 18? a pound, jumped...