Word: palme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ahead, to catch the dim gleam of the rails. Suddenly, about five miles from Terre Haute, he saw something which few railroad engineers have seen, under the modern railroad signal systems.* Into the headlight sprang the headlight of another locomotive, on the single track ahead. Frank Blair's palm hit the throttle; he jerked at the air brakes. The huge drivers screeched and slid, and Engineer Blair dived...
...Otto Hellmuth sounded a practical note. "We all know that God is with us," he told the people of Würzburg, "but let's not rely on God alone. Let's work so hard and fight so fiercely that God cannot refuse to hand the victory palm to Germany...
...Poet-Novelist José Eustasio Rivera on the jungle: "No cooing nightingales here, no Versaillian gardens or sentimental vistas! Instead the croaking of dropsical frogs ... the aphrodisiac parasite that covers the ground with dead insects, the disgusting blooms that throb with sensual palpitations. . . . Stretched from tree to palm in long, elastic curves, like carelessly hung nets [the lianas catch] falling leaves, branches, and fruits, [hold] them for years until they sag and burst like rotten bags, scattering blind reptiles, rusty salamanders, hairy spiders . . . the comejen grub gnaws at the trees like quick-spreading syphilis . . .; everywhere is the reek of fermentation...
...Tell [Eustace] we're waiting," snapped Mrs. Gamble. Gamble "Only just come over," squeaked the medium. "Seems he doesn't rightly know he's passed on." In the darkness, Mrs. Thwale crooked her forefinger and traced the letters L O V E on Sebastian's palm. Then she traced a few other, unprintable, four-letter words. "Is it true?" she asked Eustace, "that where you are, there isn't any marrying?" "Backwards and downwards, Christian soldiers," retorted Eustace sarcastically...
...descended on them, made their faces swell up like footballs. Years before, they were told, Alaskan Indians who captured white men simply tied their victims naked to trees, let the mosquitoes finish them. Once when Connie clapped her husband on the back she counted 100 squashed mosquitoes on her palm. They could understand why mosquitoes were considered "the most serious single obstacle . . . in the way of man's subjugation of the North...