Word: nose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first U.S. trials of a sulfa drug was made in 1936 on a sinus infection of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (he was cured). Since then interest in sulfa cures has centered around other infections-pneumonia, gonorrhea, streptococcus diseases. But last week Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat Specialist Roland F. Marks of the University of California Medical School announced that sulfathiazole treatment for maxillary sinusitis (inflammation of cheek sinuses) improved 70% of his patients in three or four weeks. He recommends that doctors try the drug before resorting to surgery...
...those days in the Southwest Pacific, much was done by trial & error. There was no low-altitude bombsight. Bill Benn improvised one by riding in the nose of a Fortress, marking crosses on the bombardier's plexiglass windshield until he got what he wanted. Then he made a few runs against an old hulk stranded off Port Moresby, found that his marks were good enough for accurate sights...
...after the first run, she was ready. She was down the runway and off. Eddie Allen tucked up her legs and she whisked away from the field, slim, slick, slightly bent in her fore-and-aft line so that her nose drooped like an ant-eater's. An hour later she had landed at Muroc Lake and the Army Air Forces...
...Washington Post's grey, sharp managing editor Alexander F. ("Casey") Jones became convinced, that all the pro-isolationist, anti-Semitic propaganda that was then flooding the U.S. was more than mere coincidence. To Reporter Dillard Stokes, who has a nose sharpened by 19 years in U.S. newsrooms, has studied law and authored many a spare-time true detective story, Casey Jones gave a blank-check assignment: investigate and expose subversive activities -"take your time, be sure of your facts," then shoot the works...
Young Captain Patrick Bannon, a "sound chip off an old Gloucester block" ("God rest his iron soul"), is a Reservist whom the Navy has told to "fish a little longer." Obeying the order with a true seaman's pleasure ("his mighty nose snuffed up the spray's champagne"), he takes the "sweet sailer and . . . good earner" Daniel Webster out to the Grand Banks with a weather eye peeled for wartime trouble. Aboard are two new men, Danes by their claim-Conrad and Holger...