Word: madeira
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...perhaps not at all-tomorrow I may." Her big voice had a dark, anthracite sheen, sometimes with more polish than depth, sometimes with not quite enough polish, but always firm and sometimes thrilling. By the time she reached her ultimate scene of terror and death, handsome U.S. Contralto Jean Madeira achieved a long-sought objective -to arrive at the top of the operatic heap in her own country...
...accident at the U.S. Air Force base in Bordeaux, France two months ago, Specialist 3/c Rodney Madeira, 20, suffered third-degree burns over 30% of his body, with lesser burns over another 10%. He faced a long and dangerous period in the hospital while growing the skin he needed to cover the burned area...
Flown to the Air Force hospital at Wiesbaden, Germany, Madeira was swathed in dressings of erythromycin (an antibiotic) on fine-mesh gauze. In a month his wounds had healed enough for the doctors to start skin grafts. They covered 20% of the burned area with skin from Madeira's left arm, then began looking around for a new source of supply. It was unfortunate, Chief Surgeon Major Philip A. Cox remarked to Madeira, that he did not have an identical twin, since only skin from the patient's own body or from such a twin would...
Major Cox fired off a teletype message to Washington. Four days later, as he was sitting down to lunch in Munsan, Korea, Army Cook Charles Ronald Madeira was told that he had emergency leave, in 15 minutes had started on the first leg of his trip to Germany. On the way, Charles Madeira, who had not seen his brother since they left their home town, Reading, Pa., a year and a half ago, had some reservations ("They ain't hacking off none of my skin for nobody"). Later he decided to go through with the operation...
...wines on the now-famous menu of a royal banquet given in 1939 by King George VI for French President Albert Lebrun. The items: Consommé Quenelles, Filet de truite saumonée, Petits Pois à la française, Sauce maltaise, Corbeille, Château Yquem; Madeira Sercial. The minute he heard it, Captain McCutchen knew he was rich.* Inside the isolation booth he conferred with his father-advisor (for appearance sake only, it seemed), cracked his knuckles, and cracked out the answers. Squealed Emcee Hal March, amid crashing chords of The Marine Hymn: "If you're symbolic...