Word: lemon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...affectionate, voluble, energetic, terrierlike man, Hans Zinsser had a strong fondness for wine, women, horses, books. Two years ago, returning from a junket to China, he noticed that the sun on ship board turned him not healthy brown but lemon yellow. He knew then that there was something serious the matter with his blood. Back in Boston, he consulted a colleague and friend, who told him, with "affectionate abstinence from any expression of sympathy," that he had leukemia. Looking out at the white sails on the Charles River, Zinsser realized that he was going to die. A great lover...
...three voyages Captain Cook discovered most of the essential facts about the Pacific - that New Zealand is two islands, that Australia is an island continent, that New Guinea is no part of it, that there is no continent between Australia and South America. He also discovered that lime or lemon juice prevents scurvy, and was so far in advance of his age that he flogged his seamen only when they preferred rum to fruit juice. In the end he fell a victim to meat eaters. On one of the islands which he had named after the inventor of the sandwich...
...usual, Sir John spoke in such low tones that most of the House had to strain and cup ears, this time for 127 minutes. He refreshed himself occasionally with a few drops of Lady Simon's personally concocted throat mixture (lemon juice, brown sugar and honey), sipped gingerly from a tiny horn...
Other officers elected included James Tyson, Tech; Arthur Santry, Williams; Midshipman William Lemon; Raymond Jones, Michigan; Charles Maddon, Lafayette; and John Ware, Yale...
...where she was a year ahead of her class. She was an avid reader of fiction, newspapers, crime stories. She told this nightmare tale with stupendous composure. Throughout her questioning, she stuck to her story, said finally: "I'd like to have some soup and a piece of lemon cream pie." Steadfast in his belief that Chloe was telling the truth was her stricken father...