Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Somerville. They tie perfume bottles on the pigs, but the average farmer can't afford such luxury." Furthermore, said Krajewski, it wasn't just Secaucus and it wasn't just pigs. The industrial areas near the Pulaski Skyway, he said, smell like embalming fluid: "Linden has assorted smells from paint and oil... There are chemical and acid smells, and Kopper's coke with its terrible smoke. Out in Manville, there is the asbestos smell . . . And in Newark, you should smell the markets in the morning. No one complains about them...
Forward, the Veep. Everything was ready for the show except the stars. The 1,230 Democratic votes are distributed ineffectively among half a dozen front runners and a dozen-odd favorite sons. Said Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer in a classic summation: "The situation is confused or fluid, whichever way you want to look at it." Said a more candid White House staffer: "Hell, we've got plenty of candidates. What we need real bad is a candidate who can beat Eisenhower...
Almost as heartening are the early results in tuberculous meningitis. Dr. Clark has treated several cases which had relapsed after courses of streptomycin. After 80 days of streptomycin, eight-year-old Elsie still had a fever; she had TB germs in her spinal fluid; she was mentally clouded and suffering spasms. Within a month, isoniazid changed all that, and not long after, Dr. Clark was able to take Elsie to the circus...
...James (South Pacific) Michener (missing: wiseacre Pianist Oscar Levant, who now lives in California). After the familiar cockcrow and the challenge to "Wake up, America, time to stump the experts!" Video Veteran Fadiman (CBS's This Is Show Business) tried hard to settle his team into the old fluid pace of the radio series...
Most of the contenders for the Democratic nomination stuck to their car caravans, airplanes and special trains, talking themselves hoarse and trying to collar delegates (see below). Actually, delegate figures mean little in the Democratic situation, which can best be described in a tired old military term: fluid. There are few "committed" Democratic delegates who would not switch to someone else if Harry Truman or some of the big state bosses gave the nod. In Washington, just about anybody, with the possible exception of the elevator man in the Washington Monument, was being talked about as a possible candidate. This...