Word: glassfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supply. Even after doubling the portions, which would be only humane, there still remains enough meat for a thirty-three year supply. Using this preserved meat is the essence of husbandry. The jars, now freed of their contents, could be melted down and utilized to augment Harvard's famous glass flowers exhibition. Even the formaldehyde not vaporized in cooking the specimens could be substituted for the syrup on the breakfast French toast without creating any particular commotion...
...reach the shack Jimmy has to pled up seemingly endless staircases and tread through cold, deserted rooms with thin, gothic, stained-glass windows...
...mumbling for twelve hours 20 minutes, the longest time any Senator had ever talked without relief. "I underwent a dehydration process for two days before I spoke," the Senator explained with the pride of a gabby flagpole-sitter. He refueled himself during his performance with nothing more than two glasses of water, one glass of orange juice, seven chocolate bars and a few tablets for his throat...
...easy time. Aaron falls half in love with a girl he meets at the Missionary Home, Selene Lanark, "all vigor, speed, tautness . . . She was on the tall side, slender, rather tanned: olive-brown of skin with a wonderful smoothness to it ... Her eyes had the tint of black glass . . ." Presently he discovers that Selene is a half-breed, that her father is a rich trader living near Aaron's Mission of Bois des Morts in Minnesota. When he gets there, Aaron finds how much there is to do before he can get to his preaching...
...routine injection of 50,000 units. Within a few seconds the patient complained of a strange taste in her mouth, and of swelling and tightness in her throat and nose. She itched all over, and turned blue in the face. Then, as she was asking for a glass of water, she collapsed and died...