Word: etch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor critics complained that the only way to get a political message into the jazzed-up Herald was to etch it on the back of a bathing beauty. A motion that the Herald "no longer deserves support as a Labor paper" became a tradition of party congresses. In 1940, after a tug of war between Socialists and circulation-builders, Editor Francis Williams resigned and Deputy Editor Cudlipp took over...
...other pen which will do so many amazing, extraordinary things . . . brand cattle, spotweld, etch letters in solid concrete, repel insects or strange men, cut cabs in two pieces, burn holes in any blanket, melt locks (throw away your keys), remove superfluous hair (no smelly, sticky wax or paste!), and call police cars on short wave (if the police don't call you first!). It may even write, for all we know! . . . And you have only nine more years to wait...
...ZoBell also found that certain bacteria etch little holes in limestone, allowing petroleum to percolate through. Others give off gases, forcing oil out of dead-end pores. Others pry oil films off mineral surfaces. All these quiet, persistent activities probably help the oil to collect in large underground pools...
...lowered our seats and pulled down the hatches. Now our vision was limited by the slits of our periscopes. The noise of battle was fainter in our ears, but it was still perfectly audible. Sweat began to etch rivulets down dusty faces and clot in the stubble of three-day beards. With brows pressed against the rubber cushion above the periscope we watched the battle panorama unroll. The smell of cordite and the smell of dead bodies filtered through the vents and seemed to enter our pores...
...contributing causes of tooth decay are not clearly understood, Hill admits. But it is certain that decay is usually associated with the presence in the mouth of swarms of bacteria, whose acid excretions etch away calcium from the teeth. These bacteria cannot live in human saliva unless sugar is present; and since sugar does not occur in normal saliva, they must get their nourishment from food taken into the mouth. Says Dr. Hill: "When diets are followed which contain a rigid restriction of sugar, these acid-forming organisms rapidly disappear from the saliva...