Word: coughings
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...which fancies itself a Communist oasis in a democratic desert, admitted it was running short of figs and water. With few ads, only 23,400 readers (67,000 Sundays) and high costs, the Worker faced a "$175,000 deficit." Editor John Gates peremptorily told readers to dig down and cough up: "Without that money the paper can't roll...
...expanded its public address system into a small broadcasting studio, laid in a supply of canned music, syrupy-voiced announcers and loudspeakers (82 of them), and went into business. Advertisers eagerly paid $1,800 a week for the privilege of spraying music and shouting the merits of their beer, cough drops, cigarettes, chewing gum and automobiles at defenseless travelers...
...corner of his 286-acre farm, Joe joined a crowd of several hundred oil scouts, brokers, geologists and gawking neighbors around the tin-hatted crew working the rig on a 128-ft. oil derrick. As Joe and they watched, there was a cough and a sputter; then a stream of oil shot out 30 ft. and poured into the mud sump pit. Joe York rubbed his hands in the oil, smelled it and smiled. "I guess I won't have to go back to milking those Jersey cows," he said. The oil scouts took but one look...
What visitors to the 17th Century cloth workers' guild hall saw was dazzling indeed: jewel-encrusted reliquaries and crucifixes and polychrome statues; richly colored, illustrated manuscripts so valuable that visitors were commanded not to cough or sneeze while examining them; tapestries whose strawberry pinks, forest greens, incarnadine reds were still unfaded...
Some Britons once firmly believed that a man could cure a cough by pulling a hair from his head, putting it between two pieces of buttered bread, and feeding it to a dog with the words: "Good luck, you bound. May you be sick and I be sound." Expected result: the dog trotted off coughing, the man recovered...