Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They held that, in the event of a future war, the U.S. would be largely dependent on Arabian oil. It also depends on the friendship of 45 million Arabs for its chain of Middle East airfields...
...They had the U.S. Government in an awkward corner. Not only had the U.S. put its signature to partition; without U.S. sponsorship the plan would never have passed. They put forth practical as well as moral arguments: the Arabs needed U.S. dollars as much as the U.S. needed Arabian oil. No matter how they raged, the Arabs would not kill such a golden-egg-laying goose...
...What Sort Big Dornkey?" The sights and sounds of civilization brought murmurs of comparison. On Tristan, fish oil lights the lamps. The diet is fish and potatoes, augmented sometimes by albatross and penguin eggs. Now the six men looked into the kaleidoscope of a lighted city. They ate ice cream doused with brandy. They gazed at autos. Murmured balding, long-nosed Gordon Glass* at his first glimpse of one: "A most wunnerful movement." At his first sight of a horse: "What sort big dornkey is that...
...butter superior to margarine? For years, the warring champions of butter and margarine (made from vegetable fat -mostly soybean and cottonseed oil) have been smearing each other, despite laboratory tests on rats and mice that showed no difference in food value. In 1946, three Chicago physicians* accepted a grant from the National Association of Margarine Manufacturers to experiment with human beings...
Such pictures made Koerner the find of the year. There were less successful paintings in his show, some nasty in color, some confused in content. Except for one oil, The Beach, Koerner had excluded nature almost entirely. "I'm a city man," says Koerner. "I really love to ride the subway. To me it's like going to the theater...