Word: pail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrote the doctors, "is somewhat similar to that of a two-horse carriage, where the pull is . . . apportioned and equalized between the two ends of a lever, the whiffletree." Motor power is reduced to about 25% of normal, but this is still enough to enable patients to carry pails of water or pour water from one full pail into an empty one. The articulation is so perfect that the patient can hold and smoke a cigaret with ease...
...also admitted that an even more heretical method of drowning an incendiary would work: shovel the bomb quickly into a full pail of water, where it will go out like a match. The Chicago Fire Department has been preaching this method for several months, while officials of the OCD and the Army's Chemical Warfare Service bluntly insisted that the Chicagoans were illadvised...
There were casualties-but not from bombs. Three citizens had been killed in auto crashes. An air-raid warden had died of a heart attack. Windows had been smashed and several skygazers struck by falling shell fragments. Someone threw a garbage pail through a jewelry-store window to black-out a neon sign. One woman was yanked out of bed by police, and hauled off to jail for failing to black-out her house. She sobbed: "One of the officers slapped my face. I'm going to tell that to the judge." Stalled for almost five hours, traffic choked...
...Anecdotes told by Merchant Marcus at the Boston Distribution Conference (TIME, Oct. 20): A silversmith refused to make 40 tea sets because, while making one set was fun, making 40 sets would be hard work; 2) a lard seller in a village market refused to sell her whole pail of lard at once until she had had her fill of gossip...
...only trick to the Eagles' attack was the continued use of the man in motion. On two plays out of three, one of the halfbacks from the Heights crossed behind the center before the ball was snapped, and headed for the sidelines as if in search of the water pail...