Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result, German prisoners' statements jibed with reports of French civilians: that Rommel's car had been strafed two weeks ago by an Allied pilot, that "The Fox" had been hit and further injured when his car overturned. The U.S. Army took the stories with a grain of salt, waited to hear more...
...hundreds of harmless pedestrians, hawkers and beggars are rounded up in the streets of an occupied city . . . then systematically starved in one of the worst sort of concentration camps. The daily ration consists of rice gruel cooked with bicarbonate of soda (to economize on firewood) which is served without salt, flavoring, or other addition...
...trip to Nantucket, 30 miles father out in the Atlantic, costs considerably more and eats up the extra hours that could be spent touring the vineyard. But for the salt-water cruise addict the longer ocean trip is well worth while. Nantucket, like the Vineyard, has escaped the commercialization which has ruined so many other vacation resorts. Here you will find gray-shingled cottages covered with rambler roses, cobble stoned streets, and century-old houses with "widder's walks," where Nantucket wives once climbed to look for the return of the old whaling ships...
...Westinghouse engineer, H. A. Poehler. Twenty-five states have adopted electrocution as the most efficient method of capital punishment. But the electric chair stacks all the cards against its occupant. It uses moderate voltage (about 2,000) and current (less than eight amperes), and contacts moistened with salt water, to lower the occupant's resistance. This virtually assures instant death, because moderate voltage is best calculated to disrupt the cycle of the human heartbeat...
After two days our water supply ran out. Then we ran out of salt and bread and all the canned food, later lost the cattle which the Partisan quartermasters drove with them. After that we were down to one meal a day of rice boiled without salt in snow water...