Word: fatten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help of a sympathetic German fellow prisoner, he bought a ticket to Berlin, boarded a fast express at Leuna after the Russians had made their routine inspection and rode uninterrupted into Germany's British zone. His superiors accepted his tale and sent him to a hospital to fatten up. "I've been thinking about that girl," mused Private Moncaster bitterly last week. "Why didn't the Russians arrest her? I'm through with women...
...week's Royal Film Performance. O'nce disdained as a last resort of the screen's has-beens, personal appearances have grown into a multi-million-dollar studio campaign to pep up a sluggish box office. Hollywood has learned that a star in the flesh can fatten a cinemansion's receipts by as much...
There is need for such a combination because streptomycin, more than any other of the antibiotics, tends to develop resistant strains of germs. Some strains learn to live with it, even becoming dependent on it-as if a rat began to fatten on rat poison. The resistant strains can be highly dangerous; if they infect another victim, he cannot be cured by streptomycin or anything else yet known...
...ruefully: "Mortality was 90% in the Crouch." The U.S. invaders were two snail-like creatures Railed the American slipper limpet and the American whelk tingle, which bore through the shells and eat the young oysters. The whelks and limpets stowed away when the British imported* young U.S. oysters to fatten in British oyster beds. The U.S. oysters fatten fast, but do not multiply; they find the British coastal waters too cold for spawning. The British government is now raising special oysters at Conway, in Wales, and suspends cement boxes in the water to give the larvae a chance to settle...
...Pigs. Things at home were fine. "You know, the Nicaraguan has a tremendous heart. If you do something for him, you can lead him around by the nose. If I tell one of these that I'll give him a pig if he'll fatten ten pigs for me, I'll come back and find one pig fat and the rest skinny. So I tell these guys that I'll give 'em a pig, but don't tell them which one. Then all the pigs...