Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...priest once again. "A clean man and a dirty man were each offered a bath. Now, which would take it?" "Ah," answered his flock with sudden inspiration, "both." "No, no," said the priest, "neither would take it, because the one was already clean and the other preferred his dirt. Now, for the last time, which man would take the bath?" "Neither," answered his congregation...
...tamp dirt...
...homes. Over a cow-dung fire, Sabino Perez' wife cooks the evening meal of potatoes; because of the low boiling point at 12,800 feet they come out of the pan almost as raw and hard as they went in. Blue-cheeked children huddle inside the windowless, dirt-floored, one-room hut to escape the biting mountain wind. Within are a bed, two chairs, and a four-inch figure of the Infant Jesus on a homemade altar; magazine pictures of bathing beauties, futbol players and stern-faced priests are tacked indiscriminately around the walls. The house has no water...
...bases to give his men a straight-from-the-shoulder talk. At each base the airmen were lined up at attention on the runways, as the general warned them that 1) Communists and other anti-Americans, aided by the sensational press, were doing their best to "spread dirt" and create bad feeling between the allies; and 2) it was up to the U.S. airmen themselves to make sure it was not justified...
...quick-setting liquid plastic (aero-plast), sprayed from an aerosol bomb, makes a better dressing for wounds, and especially burns, than Vaseline gauze. It keeps body fluids in and keeps dirt and germs out; it seldom needs changing, and its transparency lets the surgeon look at the wound as often as he wants. Best of all, it can be applied by unskilled hands, so it can be kept handy in front-line aid stations, civil-defense posts, airplanes and crash ambulances...