Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There are no soap operas in Russian radio. Rarely are plays written especially for radio. Instead, full-length plays are broadcast from legitimate theaters...
...doors (there was a typed inventory of its contents on the inside of the door) and brought out implements of leather and steel, neatly hung on hooks. Stripped, he was bent over a table, his head down, his chin pressed against the rough wooden board smelling of carbolic soap. The first three strokes seemed to split his body in two. "Each new stroke lit up an electric bulb behind his eyeballs and caused an explosion inside his skull. He heard himself burst into long, savage screams, felt his bladder empty itself, his stomach throw up its contents over the table...
...economic pattern of German conquest has been clear and consistent. First came a vast physical looting, in which trains were requisitioned to carry to Germany movable property: machinery, raw materials, food stocks, books, scientific instruments, horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, art objects and collections, furniture, park benches, clothing, soap, hardware, garden tools, bed linen, doorknobs. The trains themselves seldom returned...
...Queens family gets into the picture when Link Ferris (Dick Powell), a radio-writer who has lost his genius for selling soap, crosses the East River in search of warm human materials. He stumbles upon just that in the person of Bonnie Porter (Mary Martin), a lunch-wagon waitress who sings prettily at her work. Bonnie's heart is so warm that before Link can say Yes-but-I-earn-a-thousand-a-week, she feeds him, takes him home, until his hard luck shall change...
This trip across North Africa gave me a pretty good idea of what Red Cross is doing and I assure you it's a lot. They have showers, towels, soap. They have food that we try our best to make a little different from the GI stuff. Cold drinks. You have no idea what a luxury...