Word: mustards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Farmer Jimmy Wood drove his plow through 200 acres of mustard, spinach, turnips and cabbage...
...were well equipped with masks.) Gas attacks can, of course, seriously hamper military or civilian movement. But on the other hand war gases are readily blown or washed away by wind, rain and snow, and they may be blown back in the faces of their users. The blister gases (mustard and Lewisite) cling to solid surfaces for days or weeks. To an advancing army they would be a dangerous nuisance...
...Literary Rangers, they hinted they would do, attacked with a poison in the form of a colloidal suspension carried in an alcoholic medium. It has a faint odor of mustard gas; but that characteristic odor is masked by a heavy scent of Chanel...
Seven years ago a sad-eyed little man in a black cape stood up in Geneva and shamed the statesmen of 50 nations. Italians booed and the rest looked away while Emperor Haile Selassie, dispossessed by Italian arms and mustard gas, cried out for international morality...
...Munda airfield on this August afternoon was not in the gutted, smoldering landscape. It was wholly due to the presence there of dirty, sour-smelling, bloodied American troops poking about in the smoky rubble looking for souvenirs. Among their souvenirs were 1,671 dead Japanese (so far counted), sodden, mustard-colored bags of dusty, mustard-colored flesh ballooning n the humid sunlight, attracting only flies and burial squads. Soon to be souvenirs were isolated Jap units which had taken refuge in the slimy shadow of nearby man grove swamps. A few of the estimated 5,000 of the original garrison...