Word: peppermint
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...semi-annual tribal council's conclave at Window Rock, Ariz. went on without him. But high-heeled boots and sheepskin moccasins shuffled in & out of room 201 at nearby Fort Defiance's Government hospital. The man in the peppermint-candy pajamas knew the crisis facing his people. The reservation's 17 million arid, eroded and exhausted acres could not support its 55,000 people much longer. (Navajos, multiplying faster than whites, are the largest Indian nation...
Opulent Age. When World War I ended, every U.S. war worker who could afford to, invested his wages in a silk shirt with peppermint candy stripes. The shirt was a gonfalon of the future. Prosperity was just around the corner...
...Willkie, some of them obviously caught in mid-paragraph while making politic remarks about an ally. Sometimes N.C.A. S.F.'s rebuttal "proof" consisted in comparing White's prejudices with somebody else's. Sometimes N.C.A.S.F. seemed to be drubbing Reporter White over the head with a peppermint candy stick. (White: "The women are drab, sallow and tired." Rebuttal, by Private Howard Katzander in Yank: "They have beautiful complexions and some are beautifully built...
...cigarets into a pillowcase. Then, chewing his store's last stick of gum, he strolled the streets of Armonk, distributing packs of cigarets to astonished passersby. But back in his drugstore, he slapped his own pockets in alarm. Morosely he reached into a candy jar, ate a peppermint. He had forgotten to save a smoke for himself...
...water produced by the Goetz method, while drinkable, still has a high proportion of salts (e.g., about 4% of sodium citrate), has to be mixed with peppermint oil to kill the bad taste. The two Navy chemists- Lieut. William V. Consolazio and Lieut, (j.g.) Claire R. Spealman -claim that their process gets rid of all but a trace of salt (less than half of 1% sodium chloride) and produces water more palatable, more healthful than Goetz...