Word: mash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gather . . . that I was portrayed as a sort of bush-league Svengali, who hypnotized Senator Vandenberg. ... I suppose I should write Mr. Wallace a little mash note and, coincidentally, congratulate you on having such a remarkable young man on your staff. . . . Honestly, I didn't save the Republic; it must have been some other reporter. ... I have never written any of the Senator's speeches or any part of them...
Potted Chicken. In Montreal, the city morgue received a hen with a note requesting an autopsy, put the hen on ice, finally got around to examining it two weeks later, discovered that it was not dead but simply dead drunk on mash, sobered...
...cheering bleacherites, was always rebuked by the veteran Giants: "If you'd been standing in the right place, you wouldn't have had to run so hard." In the locker room he got two nicknames, "Bright Eyes" and "Little Springtime." Furiously denying that he ever received "mash notes from girls," he learned to snap wet towels back at his tormentors. The sport writers dubbed him "Master Melvin...
Some microbes have done double jobs. One, fed in a certain way, yields oxalic acid, basic chemical of the blueprint industry; on a different diet it produces the gluconic acid used in medicines. The versatile Clostridium acetobutylicum, on a single diet of corn mash, produces acetone for solvents, butanol for automobile lacquers, and riboflavin (Vitamin...
Inaudible Christians. South of the Chavantes live the Bororos. Nominal Christians, they work on the farms of the Catholic priests who converted them, but frequently disappear on week-long hunting trips. Their big game is Brazilians, whose skulls they mash in the classic Chavante manner, in hope of laying the blame on their pagan neighbors. Brazilian frontiers men fear them more than they do the Chavantes, and wish that they had never been converted to Christianity...