Word: snaked
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...attack narrowed down to the main objective: poverty-stricken, malaria-ridden, snake-infested Okinawa, largest and staunchest rung in the Ryukyu ladder. Once firmly established on Okinawa, Americans could climb up the 370 miles to Kyushu, Japan's southernmost main island, or climb down 365 miles to Formosa, potential springboard for landings in China...
...late one night to listen to the heart of a lady patient. He leaned down, listened, fell asleep and remained there almost half an hour. The lady thought it "an exceptionally thorough examination." Another famed Philadelphia doctor, S. (for Silas) Weir Mitchell, was a successful novelist, an expert on snake bites, and a pioneer U.S. neurologist. When his own nerves gave way, he rushed to Europe, consulted a Viennese specialist, was told: "In your own country is the man who can do you most good. His name is Dr. S. Weir Mitchell of Philadelphia...
...loosely held together. It was started by an elderly Manhattan industrialist, Raymond W. Marshall, who, seeing the great possibilities in Alaskan aviation, merged four bush-flying lines. As a result, its 30 planes are mostly flying antiques. Passengers often sit astride piles of rawhide and potatoes as the planes snake their way through mountain passes with supplies for isolated villages, mining camps and canneries...
...told an admirer, "you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both." To another he said: "I have been thinking . . . what creature you most resemble and 'tis the Rattle Snake : I am sure you have its Attractions, I think you have its Venom, too, and all the world knows you have its Rattle " quot;If I kept a harem," he once mused, "the ladies should all wear linen gowns...
There was much argument as to the monster's antecedents. Most logical explanation was one adapted from the Idaho Sunday Statesman: Paul Bunyan, who used to fish the Snake River regularly, tied the shore-end of his sturgeon line to Babe, his vast blue ox, one hot day when sport was slow. Babe, nipped by a horsefly at the moment a sturgeon took the bait, twitched so violently that the huge fish was sent sailing all the way to Payette Lake. A jerk like that could well have given the creature a curvature of the spine (Slimy Slim...