Word: slime
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Silently the opium gatherers moved among the flowers, sometimes hidden from sight among the rows of corn. With knives and razors they slashed a "V" in the egg-shaped fruit over the big poppy petals, tapped out drops of white slime into tin cans and paper sacks. If they could slip past the soldiers, they could sell the stiffened slime, crude opium gum, to gun-toting dealers. The rewards were great; and it was certainly easier than raising tomatoes, which spoiled on the burros' backs on the long trails to market...
Sweating Canadian gunners, beyond sight of their target, poured in more fire. Men and machines were ripped to bits, screaming horses reared and plunged through the wreckage. Trucks caught fire. Ammunition exploded and wild-running vehicles spilled over into the slime-covered Dives River. The guns thundered until the column was no more...
...double-elliptical, high-uffen-buffen, double-turreted, back-acting submarine war junk. . . . She is about the shape of a sweet potato that has burst in the boiling. She draws 14 feet of mud forward, and 16 ft. 6 in. of slime aft, and has three feet of discolored water over the maindeck in fair weather. . . . All the clinkers, ashes, buckets, shovels, etc. and an occasional sleepy coal passer are sucked up the flue and blown thousands of miles...
...John Cudahy is not to be confused with the standard-variety of Republican isolationists and Roosevelt-baiters. First, because he roundly denounces the Nazis. Said he last week: the Hitler regime is "the most heartless imperialism since man emerged from the slime of barbarism." Second, John Cudahy is not just for sitting back and doing nothing. Last week he called upon the President to propose "an American program of peace" based on "an international government with power to enforce the solution of this and all the endless wars in Europe." Back of such a proposal John Cudahy is prepared...
Consequently her Job Mann is an even more resolute character than Ma Joad Determined to pull himself and his companions up from slime, malnutrition and poverty, he succeeds. If she sometimes belabors a point, ofttimes overwrites, Author Slade nevertheless carries her thesis -a quotation from her lawyer-husband, John A. Slade: "It is strange how most of us go through life, knowing so little about it, nourished on vague hopes, half-beliefs, and repressions . . .; in a crisis, it may be that only those who are capable of deliberate choice and planning shall survive...