Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that point a monkey wrench-apparently flung from the general direction of the Army Ordnance-clunked into the works. The astonished State Department was informed that the War Department disapproved of this deal on two grounds: 1) machine tools needed to make Johnson guns could better be used to make weapons on order for the Army, 2) the Johnson designs, although unwanted by the Army, constituted military secrets which should not be sold even to friendly powers. Military brasswigs had neither forgotten nor forgiven Inventor Johnson's original...
Scientists who have been experimenting with poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) virus have been considerably hampered because the only animal they could infect was the expensive rhesus monkey. Last year Dr. Charles Armstrong of the U. S. Public Health Service finally succeeded in giving polio to ordinary cotton rats. That hurdle passed, he was able to pass the infection from cotton rats to mice...
Last fortnight, in the Rockefeller Journal of Experimental Medicine, Drs. Claus W. Jungeblut and Murray Sanders of Columbia University announced the next step: successful immunization of monkeys against polio. First they took a strain of live polio virus deadly to monkeys and injected it into a cotton rat. He frisked around apparently in perfect health. Then they passed a portion of his polio-saturated brain on to Rat No. II. He became mildly sick. A suspension of his brain, in turn, was given to Rat No. III. He became paralyzed, and his brain, when given to mice, killed them...
...Anderson. Clayton & Co., has come out of recent anti-New Deal retirement to work for Nelson Rockefeller, coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Regulations with Latin America, the National Defense Council's agent for nudging U. S. commerce toward a hemisphere basis. Cottonmen were relieved that if defense must monkey with their crop, it would be done Will Clayton's way. 2) If U. S. exports of raw cotton to Japan were cut off, presumably so would be Japan's exports of cotton goods to Latin America, which were a substantial 113,152,000 square yards...
...relatives, who provide, he says, his listening audience. He also likes to dwell on the doings of his dog, sometimes known as Only-Game-Fish-Swim-Upstream. Celebrated are his ribaldries. On winter nights he has announced that the cold has compelled Ripley to take the brass monkey inside, occasionally instructs actors who happen in on his show to recite "anything from Shakespeare to Dr. Wharton's Almanac." A favorite of Manhattan sophisticates, he has introduced on his show a lady glass-eater, who quietly munched razor blades during her interview, a ladies' sportswear manufacturer, who described...