Word: dander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dander up, Moss also fired off a five-page report on the sergeants' case to Air Force headquarters in Wiesbaden, Germany, and in Washington, requesting an investigation "of the highest order." i.e., by Congress. Noted the report flatly: "It is against American law, both military and civilian, to obtain confessions by force, brutality or torture . . ." Then, driving to the heart of the matter, Moss wrote that before the sergeants' arrest, the morale of U.S. forces in Izmir was high, but now "service men here [feel] that they are being let down by their own civilian national representatives...
...British, their dander up, were convinced that hostile anglers are fishing in Iceland's troubled waters. Iceland's Fisheries and Trade Minister Ludvik Joseps-son is a Communist, and forced the twelve-mile limit through the country's coalition Cabinet against the objection of more NATO-minded ministers. The Soviet ambassador, who has signed agreements with Comrade Josepsson to buy about a third of Iceland's catch, was quick to proclaim Russian support of the new twelve-mile decree. The British Admiralty accordingly let it be known that four new frigates might shortly be added...
Though allergists have blamed everything under the sun-cat dander, mothers-in-law and even the sun itself-for a host of more or less real diseases, they have usually conceded that there had to be definite symptoms such as runny nose, asthma or hives before allergy could be proved. Last week, having exhausted the known world in their search for allergenic villains, 500 dedicated specialists from 22 nations finished their meeting in Florence's Palazzo Pitti with new inspiration: ten times as common as conventional allergy, and far more treacherous, may be a hidden type called idioblapsis...
...While touring some farm buildings at Pennsylvania State College, mild-mannered Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson was asked by a brash photographer if he could milk a cow. His dander up, Farmer Benson reached for the nearest teat, proved his skill by squirting a jet of milk into the photographer...
...days old, Anita testified, teetering Tommy lugged out photographs of all his ex-wives and old flames and hung them all about the house. "I said to him, 'Tommy, you've had more than your usual quota of gin this morning.' " That got Tommy's dander up. "He got his gun and threatened to kill me." In the witness chair, Manville was asked if it was true that he had proposed to Anita's twin sister, Juanita Patino, ex-wife of Bolivia's tin tycoon, just a few days after he married Anita. Tommy...