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...place at Great Wigborough, Essex. Around three-year-old bomb craters in his fields strange plants had sprouted to a height of seven feet.* Canny Richard Mortimer examined the flora, reported: "The plant can be grown as easily as a common weed, and raw rubber will drip from it when it is cut. Samples of the plant were sent to a chemist. The report came back: 'pure latex.' Each plant yields between one and two ounces of latex; an acre would yield over two tons. The possibilities are stupendous. The center of the rubber-producing world will...
...know how long I walked around the fighter admiring it and caressing its wicked-looking body . . . as if I were rolling old sherry around on my tongue. . . . Like a beautiful woman, it demanded constant attention." At last, with his plane's shark mouth "seeming to drip saliva," he went out for action...
...question them, say: "There doesn't seem much time to think about Christmas this year, and anyway the setting is all screwy." Which, of course, it is. It is a far cry from carol singers tramping through the snow to the lean, gaunt, green-garbed Americans squirming through drip ping man-high Kunai grass, or sniping Japs from the fronded tops of coconut palms, or flitting like phantoms from tree to tree in the weird firefly-spangled jungle...
...change her clothes. Then the Nazis said she was a spy. They put sharp tongs on her right arm and tore the flesh. They refused her medical attention unless she gave up her "military secrets." From then on indecencies alternated with the dungeon. She cleaned her wounds with the drip from the ceiling...
Patients with severe ulcers, said Dr. Winkelstein, must stay in bed for at least three weeks, are given no food, only constant drip treatment of three quarts of milk daily. Those who cannot tolerate milk are given a mild solution of aluminum hydroxide or phosphate gel. Once the ulcers start to heal, patients can have three good-sized bland meals a day, must use the drip for an hour after each meal, continue it until an hour before the next. They must keep the drip tube in their stomachs all night for many months...