Word: dose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world manifestly run by the Big Powers, the loss of this tattered privilege might have been just another dose of "reality" if it had been judiciously administered. Cried Arkansas' James W. Fulbright, who had just made an eloquent plea for world cooperation in the U.S. Senate: "Why in the world couldn't they have announced it at the same time as they announced the other results of Yalta? I don't like this kind of secret dealing...
...bomb it out with high explosives. The fire-bomb technique is not infallible: less than two square miles of Nagoya burned in the first assault, and the job had to be done again a week later-with better results. Daylight bombing with big demolition bombs is still the prescribed dose for heavy industry, big arsenals, dockyards and the like. In future, the Japs (already evacuating all but essential civilians from five of their million-population cities) will have to reckon with both types of attack...
...given the job of taking the German village of Veen, the Zombies got their chance. They had to advance over flat farmland, then subdue the German defenders house by house, barn by barn, pigsty by pigsty. It took three days, and one reporter called the battle "a double-header dose of hell." Even after the village was taken, it had to be combed for mines, for it was nastily booby-trapped. One Canadian was blown up when he pulled a sheet off a farmhouse bed to spread over a dead comrade. Said one officer: "We scarcely dared milk...
...spend money on whiskey instead of on war bonds. With a mixture of guilt and frustration peculiar to the civilian soul in wartime, the nation was willing to admit that its patriotic conscience was not completely clear. But last week-while dutifully opening its mouth for the latest dose of official criticism-the vast patient could not stifle a groan of protest...
...Last week news of a sensational new weed killer which may eclipse all these was spreading rapidly among U.S. farmers and suburbanites. It is a synthetic hormone, called 2-4-D* by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which helped develop it. A very dilute dose (one pound of the chemical to 75 gallons of water), when sprayed on the leaves, kills the toughest U.S. weed-the perennial wild morning glory (also called bindweed). It is also deadly to poison ivy, poison oak, sumac, horse nettle, chickweed, thistles, plaintain, dandelions, ragweed. But it is harmless to animals, is not inflammable, does...