Word: ome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solace to most of London's perspiring millions. "I can't eat in the day and I wriggle about with one sheet all night," moaned a a little suburban housewife. "Cahn't work. Cahn't sleep. And your margarine melts before you get it 'ome from the grocer's," groaned a Cockney lady in the Underground...
...Warren peace is no longer the issue," said his buddy, "but a Sharp thinker ought to Lodge a decent prediction. Ives-ome Capitol ideas though, and Allen all I Congress a few of the results...
Farther inland the Allies swung around craterlike Lake Bracciano, dashed into walled Viterbo, classical home of hand-ome fountains and beautiful women. More than 400 smashed Nazi vehicles strewed Highway No. 2 from Rome. Near Highway No. 3, outside Civita Castellana, General Mark Clark's men found the tunneled underground stronghold where Kesselring had joked with his staff, studied his maps...
...drive out pulque the Government must conquer a superstition, smash a major industry. The superstition dates centuries before Cortés. This fall as in hundreds of years past, many a peon still trudged miles up into the mountains to participate in a bibulous ritual on the site where Ome Tochtli's idol once stood. As an industry, pulque employes a million and a half persons, covers a million acres of land...
Grubby Mexican peons, sodden and weary from their long annual pilgrimage to Ome Tochtli (Two Rabbit, God of Drunkenness) in Tepoxtlaá, staggered into Mexico City last week to find themselves bedeviled by cops, shrill women and crackdowns, tempted with low-taxed beer. The Mexican Government was full swing in its campaign to wean peons away from their vile national drink, pulque (pronounced pool-kay), educate them up to beer...