Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tiny old woman in black, her eyes glazed with grief, accosted Correspondent Low. She was carrying a bottle of raw, homemade brandy, and a glass. She poured the glass brimfull and handed it to Low. "Ghia tin psychi ton makariti! (Here's to the souls of the dead),".she said. Another woman, younger but grey-haired, shouted hysterically: "You Americans must put an end to this war-or leave us to the Russians. Between you we are being crucified...
Born 60 years ago in Westphalia, Albers was nicknamed "Dante" in his youth because he had a profile like the poet's. He began as an architect, turned to stained-glass windows which he made out of broken bottles salvaged from a junkyard. He spent ten years teaching at Germany's internationally famed school of functional architecture and abstract art, the Bauhaus, founded by Walter Gropius. When Hitler clamped down on the Bauhaus, Albers lit out for the U.S. and progressive Black Mountain College, in North Carolina, where he is today. A granitic perfectionist, he starts beginning students...
...fairly normal diet. They were given no regular doses of alkalis, and were allowed to smoke all they wanted. All their food was cooked; vitamin U is destroyed by cooking, and Cheney wanted his patients to get it only in the carefully measured cabbage juice, served a glass at a time, five times a day. Five of the patients had ulcers in the stomach, seven in the duodenum, one in both the stomach and the jejunum (part of the small intestine just below the duodenum). They all got better quickly, according to X-ray evidence. Average healing time...
...stories from his vast fund of them, though his wife Jessie sometimes protests: "Oh Erwin, not that one again!" One of his favorites is about two Englishwomen who were being chauffeur-driven around Detroit in a G.M. limousine. Someone touched a hydraulic window-lift button by mistake, and the glass partition dropped, letting in a blast of air that billowed up the guests' skirts. "Gracious!" cried one, "don't you Americans ever do anything by hand...
...break the bloody glass...