Word: peppered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among those who have previously spoken at meetings of the Post-War Council are Kurt Singer, former leader in the German underground and author of "Duel for the Northland," who advocated permanent military occupation of Germany by the Allies, Senator Pepper, who spoke in favor of a world organization to maintain a peace backed up by the power of the United Nations, and Professor Gaetano Salvemini who criticized Allied political conduct in Italy. The meeting is to be open to the public...
...make a big difference in odor and taste. Therefore, attempts to find out how to synthesize spices by chemical analysis have not been successful. But an inventive Cambridge chemist named Ernest Charlton Crocker has just produced three synthetic spices very close to the real thing-nutmeg, cinnamon and white pepper. In so doing, he has used only his remarkable nose and taste buds...
...bigtime isolationist-Montana's irreconcilable Burt Wheeler-rose in routine wrath. In fact, Tom Connally was pushed and prodded, badgered and heckled by a bloc of tough-minded internationalists ("The Willful Fourteen") who were set on giving the Resolution some teeth. Notable hecklers: Florida's Claude Pepper and three of the four "B2H2 boys...
Cried Claude Pepper: "We all know that this Resolution is one of appeasement to some opposition they dare not arouse. ... All it will do is to afford a political umbrella to those who might like to get out of the rain of public indignation next year...
...August 410, he and his horde of Goths and Huns stood before the city that St. Jerome called the "clearest light of the universe." Once Rome's terror-shaken citizens had bought off the barbarian with ransom of gold, silver, silk, skins, and 3,000 Ib. of pepper. Now, by stealth or treason, Alaric's men burst the Salarian Gate. For three days and nights they pillaged palaces and temples, dragged Romans into slavery. Moved perhaps by awe, they spared the precious vessels which "belonged to St. Peter," respected the sanctuary of Christian churches, did not fire Rome...