Word: pupped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overhill to Franklin, arriving at home of 'Aunt Minnie and Uncle John' Hardison for dinner at 12:35; leave at 12:55 for 1 p.m. service at Franklin church; 2:30 p.m., Gouldsboro; leave for home at 3 :30 p.m., put wood on fire, play with pup, have nap, supper, make North Sullivan service at 5:45 p.m.; finish up with Prospect Harbor service, 7:15 p.m." At each church, she preaches the same sermon "but with variations...
Sometimes as many as ten men in a unit fell ill at once; sometimes only one man in a pup tent. The first symptoms are like grippe: headache, fever, aching joints and fatigue. The fever may shoot to 106°, the pulse weakens, and blood pressure falls as in shock. In the acute stage, tiny hemorrhages in the eyeballs make them bloodshot; other hemorrhages appear under the skin of shoulders and belly, and there may be bleeding from the nose, kidneys or intestines...
This word game Kelly plays is one of the most sparking points in the strip. He finds all the oddities of the English language and puns with them until he has formed a new language for his creature creations. From Deacon Mushrat, who speaks in Old English script to pup dog who pontificates on poltergeist, each varmint adds his own grammar...
Organic chemistry is about to have a pup, and the pup may grow, theoretically at least, as big as its mother. This week the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. announced that its plant at Hastings, Minn, is turning out a whole litter of "fluorochemicals"-compounds just like ordinary organic chemicals (e.g., acetic acid, ether, etc.), except that they have fluorine in their molecules instead of hydrogen. It should be possible, says Dr. Nelson W. Taylor, manager of Minnesota Mining's fluorochemical department, to make fluorochemical substitutes for all the 100,000-odd organic compounds, from TNT to DDT, that...
...years, uninterrupted, he had been a Government employee, and every one of his superiors testified that he was straight as a string. The FBI couldn't find anything wrong with him for that period. When he got out of college he was as radical as a short-tailed pup. If the case had come up then, we would have fired him in five minutes . . . If we had found one thing wrong in all those six years-one attendance at a meeting, one subscription to the Daily Worker-it would have been different. I said to one of the Senators...