Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Submerged in Petticoats." "He would come [down to] breakfast not too annoyingly cheerful, drink his fruit juice, and glance over the morning paper, making running comments. . . . The rest of the family would file down - sisters, sisters-in-law, female friends - until 'two rows of smiling women' flanked the table. 'I am submerged in petticoats!' Wilson would say, smiling." Between meals, the women of the house rarely saw him. Either he had gone to classes or faculty meetings on his bicycle ("turning the pedals neither too fast nor too slowly, cleanly and precisely as he did everything...
...blocks of warehouses for storing spare parts; machine shops with facilities to repair or install medium-caliber guns ; an automotive over haul plant which recovers thousands of vehicles from the scrap heap; acres of tank farms (depots); acres of under ground ammunition storage depots; refrigerators for meat, vegetables, fruit to supply the fleet. Now abuilding is a bottling plant with a capacity of 500 cases of soft drinks an hour...
Sponsored jointly by the Harvard Liberal Union and the Boston Metropolitan Council, Lillian Smith, author of the best selling novel "Strange Fruit," will address an open forum today in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. The subject of the forum, which will take place at 3 o'clock, will be "The White Man and His Culture...
...blacksmith's boy from Klanjec had become leader of a resistance movement that at one time or another pinned down as many as 18 German divisions in fruit less, fraying warfare in the wild Croatian and Bosnian mountains. But even in the darkest days, when it seemed as if the out side world would never hear the thunder of war reverberating among the beleaguered hills, Tito seldom grew irritable or despondent...
...salt treatment because he was impressed by "the confusion of thought as to the cause and management of the common cold," and because he was convinced that most remedies in-use were either "useless or harmful." On his blacklist: astringent, oily or silver-salt nose drops; fruit juices; laxatives; fresh air; alkaline drinks; fluids. The only remedies besides salt in which he sees any merit are sulfadiazine sprays, vaccines (sometimes), sun lamp treatments and sun baths...