Word: droppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patterson does not pretend to do the farming. He lets the caretaker and his wife do the chores. "The extent of my help," he gags, "is when I hold a chicken while someone doses it with an eye dropper." Usually he spends his time horseback riding, fishing in his lake or playing catch with his son. When mink began to eat his fish recently, the caretaker trapped the mink, and they are being made into a neckpiece for Mrs. Patterson...
...William's whole life fell apart after the trial. Lady Wilde stood by him, but he lost interest in his profession, "became dirtier, uglier, more abrupt" as time went on. He still saw occasional patients: once, unable to find an eye dropper when he was ready to put some lotion in a child's eye, he angrily grabbed a pen from his desk, flicked the lotion in, permanently scarring the eyeball. Dr. Wilson notes that his decline was probably hastened by physical causes as well as mental anguish. It was a steady decline; the end came...
General George S. Patton Jr., embarking on his sea of paperwork as commander of the gill-sized Fifteenth Army (TIME, Oct. 15), announced that his most pressing need in the way of equipment was an eye dropper. He also announced, in response to a suggestion that he run for Congress, that he had never had anything to do with politics, "never even voted in my life." He further announced that another war was unavoidable: people who thought otherwise, said he, were wishful thinkers, or believed that wars were the result of logical events, whereas they were caused by madmen...
...Truax Field. Said one businessman: "Here's me so soft I get out of breath tying my own shoe laces. So I'm tossing 75-lb. boxes around. I look down the aisle, and there's one of my biggest, toughest employes working with an eye dropper...
...club was organized: The Protective Order of Moles. To share the deep wine cellar in a limestone cliff, one must swear that he had been driven to the molehill by a "Whistling Willie" or "Jerry, the Bomb Dropper...