Word: pour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leon Henderson tried desperately to pour oil on troubled waters: he pointed out that normal consumption is 13 Ib. a year, argued that a ration of one pound every five weeks would not be so bad. (He did not point out that his statistics were based on total population, including adults who do not drink coffee and children under 15, who will get none under rationing.) But every coffee drinker knew that one cup a day represented a drastic cut. The panic buying went on, with no signs of stopping until shelves were bare. In some places anti-hoarders even...
About ten years ago, when we first moved into the old country farmhouse where we now live, the boojums had had the run of the place and were annoyed at being ousted. They used to steal or break anything new we put in the house, pour water in the new paint cans for painting the house, snatch the hub caps off the cars of anyone ^ho tried to visit us, and generally made lift miserable...
...fruit juice with the supper ration provides more moisture. The canned-meat ration is so hot from the desert that no fire is necessary. For coffee the tankers sometimes fill a tin can three-quarters with sand, pour in a little gasoline, sink it in the ground to the rim and throw in a match. The gas flames steadily, just long enough to boil the coffee...
...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...
Commanding a detachment of mountain troops in the first battle of Champagne (1915), he captured an important French position, forced a whole French brigade to retire. (Reward: Pour le Mérite, highest Prussian military decoration.) In 1917 Rommel distinguished himself against the Italians at the Isonzo. Recently the Germans, with characteristic tact, reminded their World War II allies by stating, in a radio sketch of his life, that Rommel "captured 9,000 Italian troops in less than half an hour...