Word: corded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another drawing a wife is lounging on a chaise longue in her boudoir. She has mounted a shotgun on the tops of two chairs, run a cord from the trigger to the door so that whoever opens the door will shoot himself. Says the wife: "It's not locked, Honey...
Prepared to go unwashed but not unwarmed, many a Yale man turned to his fireplace only to find that the college had set the student allotment at a quarter of a cord. The wood should consist of pieces 18 inches long, and the entire lot measure 27 cubic feet; at the latest report New Haven stores were finding their supplies of rulers badly depleted...
...flyer bails out at 35,000 to 40,000 feet and pulls his rip cord at once, he will probably suffocate in the thin-aired substratosphere during the first of the 24 minutes it takes him to float to earth. But if he holds his breath for 30 seconds and plummets a while before opening his parachute, he will retain consciousness...
...fall), even though the disease "is not notably prevalent in a community." Probable connection between tonsillectomies and poliomyelitis: nerves injured by surgery are more susceptible to polio infection, so that the latent virus could travel readily from the injured throat nerves to the medulla oblongata, where the spinal cord enters the brain...
...knowledge and correcting mistakes beside a campfire. There was Private Vyazmin, excitedly babbling to his officers instruction on how to improve trench-mortar fire; and Sergeant Smirnov, that joker among scouts, telling how he distracted and captured a German motorcyclist by tying a bunch of foliage to a long cord, dragging the foliage across the road...