Word: musk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dollar shortage, they said, had penetrated even into their forbidden city of Lhasa, which badly needs plows and sickles. To get them, Tibet wants to send the U.S. a list of oddities (e.g., lapis lazuli, musk, leopard skins) topped by 100,000 yak* tails. It happens that the U.S. is now suffering from a war-born shortage of yak tails, which can't be beat for making wigs and Santa Claus beards. U.S. wigmakers will probably grab them up fast...
Good Faith. Near Newcastle, New South Wales, 150 coal miners walked off the job when a pit pony developed halitosis, reconsidered when the management offered to mix fragrant musk in its feed...
...need no rehearsals," he crowed. "I don't go through that and never will. All these cats I'm playing with can blow. We don't need no arrangements. I just say, man, what you going to play? They say Musk'at Ramble. I say follow me, and you got the best arrangement you ever heard...
Real as a gob of spit, as antiseptically moral as the Ma Perkins program, the surprisingly adequate film version of "The Hucksters" gives us jug-eared, musk-exuding Clark Gable, mounting a full-tilt attack on Inane Advertising; the picture is at the same time, however, the unconscious exemplar of much that is awry in the cinema industry...
...were educated in British India. U.S. mission members found that these young Nepalese have clear ideas about what they want to do, are keen to modernize Nepal, but do not want to hurry. Their plan now is to sell a modest amount of jute, linseed, probably drugs and some musk (the perfume-producing sac of the musk deer). In that way, they would create a small dollar balance with which to buy U.S. machinery and hire U.S. technicians. Nepal's younger generals asked U.S. help in making economic surveys, inspecting possible sites for hydroelectric power, furnishing some machinery...