Word: powderly
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...Foreign Legionnaires, non-Spanish speaking Moors who had put on layers of sweaters against the high-altitude cold, and regular Spanish Army troops had advanced into the suburbs of Madrid over a terrain on which battling females of the Red Militia had abandoned vanity cases, high-heeled slippers and powder puffs. This proletarian resistance was brave but it was scarcely war. When a wave of advancing Moors were suddenly faced by Red machine guns which popped up out of a trench they simply flung themselves prostrate and waited calmly. The White artillery "bracketed" by dropping one shell behind and another...
...born near Edinburgh in 1755, sailed to Canada, the West Indies, the South Seas, was pressed into service in 1794 and took part in the battles of Cape St. Vincent and Aboukir Bay. Writing vividly and unconventionally of South Sea natives, of historic battles as they appeared from the powder magazine, John Nicol reaches his highest point in his account of the voyage of a convict ship that transported female convicts to New South Wales. All the sailors took wives from among the convicts on their first day at sea. Nicol fell in love with a modest, unfortunate girl named...
...Henry Dale, a big, diligent Englishman, opportunity to pioneer on his own with many a discovery in the chemistry of nerves. One of the subtlest products of nervous reactions is acetylcholine. Sir Henry found this evanescent substance, when isolated from the body, to be a colorless, odorless, crystalline powder. It causes capillaries and small arteries to dilate, thus lowering blood pressure and slowing the action of an overworking heart. It relaxes smooth muscles, thus relieving spasms of the bladder, ureters, uterus, intestines...
...cent aren't considered at all. There is a hint of a rule of thumb psychology in the lectures on "leadership" and "discipline." There are long weeks spent in memorizing the names of the parts of out-of-date cannon and the labels of the bags of powder. There are detailed descriptions on the workings of everything from obsolete machine guns to automobiles...
...editors Barbara Phillips announced that, though she also read Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and the Atlantic Monthly, and could identify such widely assorted characters as Vincent van Gogh, Beatrice Lillie and Princes Natalie Paley, she still stood in need of advice on "how to do my hair, powder my nose, cultivate sex appeal and walk a straight line...