Word: ox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dicumarol in pure form and then to synthesize it. They found that in the body it makes salicylic acid. Another anticoagulant, heparin, was already on the market. It is also used to keep donors' blood fluid until it can be processed. But it is an expensive extract of ox lung and liver, must be given by injection, and is hard to control. Therefore surgeons (who worry lest a fatal clot undo their work) took up Dicumarol...
...West Coast discovered this mid winter sport only 15 years ago. Their steelheaders' tackle was homemade -from coffee cans and bicycle baskets. Now they use 15-ox. rods & reels with jewel bearings. Equipment includes cans of "goof" (salmon eggs) for bait, a spool of red thread (to tie walnut-sized gobs of goof on the hook), a whiskey bottle and a "gob rag" - a fetid turkish towel for wiping hands after fixing the bait...
...spells of bad weather, which delays clearing the nets, many a fisherman will work from before dawn until midnight. This year they will labor anxiously. Reason: recently OPA pegged the price of herring before the run at about 3? a pound. Fishermen snorted like Paul Bunyan's blue ox, threatened to hang up their nets. OPA relented, reclassified some of them as wholesalers entitled to 7? a pound. This week, as rumors of further changes ran through the villages fringing Lakes Superior and Michigan, fishermen kept one eye on Superior's net-ripping, boat-smashing winter weather...
...sent young Theodore Augustus Link, fresh out of the University of Chicago, to sound out the possibilities. Lanky Dr. Link made his surveys, waited over the winter, after the ice left set out on Great Slave Lake with a motorboat, two scows overloaded with supplies, drill crews and an ox named "Nig." Eventually, after the ox had hauled the rig into position, the drillers...
...athlete?" asks Harry Fisher. "I was clumsy as an ox. But college was sort...