Word: slimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...been done before. It makes biology an exact science!" Furthermore, Kamiya has noted definite changes in the wave forms and amplitudes of his curves. This he takes to mean that Physarum has not just one rhythm but several rhythms acting together. In other words the life throb of the slime mold is not just a simple drumbeat; it is an orchestration...