Word: soaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hamburg, well-dressed citizens hungrily peeked into garbage cans in front of Allied homes. There were few pets left in the city-an old household trick, now revived, was to soak cats in skimmed milk diluted with water for eight hours, to make them tender enough to eat. The current fee for prostitutes was two slices of bread. In Essen, where the official daily ration is 1.550 calories a day, some people were getting only 887-which meant three slices of bread baked with mixed cornmeal and wheat flour and two teaspoonfuls of sugar...
Said Rudy: "This is a test case to see what people think of me now. If it's a clambake, I'll go back to Palm Springs and soak...
Taxes. There was general approval of the 20% income tax cut first proposed by loud, bullet-headed Congressman Harold Knutson. It would be an across-the-board cut, which is contrary to New Deal theories of graduated ("soak the rich") taxation. But then there were few Republican recommendations which a New Dealer would cheer. Minnesota's Republican Congressman Walter H. Judd, no New Dealer, later denied the right of the conferees to commit the whole party to such action; his was a still, small voice. The Republican bosses claimed that the tax cut could be safely made...
...Soak the burns in a solution of silver nitrate...
...inspired foreign policy (withdraw U.S. troops from China; combat "imperialism" wherever found; extend economic aid to war-devastated countries; eliminate the step-by-step proposal of the Baruch atom control plan); a New Dealing domestic policy (price & rent controls; a federal civil rights bill; extended social security; minimum wages; soak-the-rich taxation); 3) a resolution applauding Henry Wallace. A permanent committee of 50 would be appointed after the November elections to keep the ball rolling...