Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They clucked approval of the farmers, and of handsome, diligent Robert Spear Hudson, 56-year-old heir of a soap fortune, who has proved himself Britain's most effective Minister of Agriculture in this century. Together Hudson and the farmers have accomplished near-miracles with Britain's tradition-ridden and big-business-ridden agriculture. In three years they have...
...thin piece of dry bread; and finally, dinner would be vegetable soup, thickened with a teaspoonful of wheat flour, and for dessert a fig or a couple of olives. Dogs, cats, even rats are the only meats to be found; three pounds of donkey meat, which tastes like kitchen soap, costs about...
...Germany porcelain tubes replace copper and brass tubing in water, air, fuel and chemical containers; alloy steel supplants copper, bronze and brass in armatures, turbine blades, and food, soap, chemical and synthetic gasoline factories...
...Along with tanks and planes, the U.S. has sent Russia 10,000 Ford trucks, 500,000 rolls of adhesive tape, 100 medical books, tin, wheat, flour, butter, steel, aviation gasoline, machine tools and machinery to drill oil wells, laundry and toilet soap, sulfa drugs...
...kill that petticoat ghost, but in this book, with fresh evidence at hand, he gives it another kicking around. The author of the ribald 1601-itself a symptom of inhibition-needed neither his staid friend William Dean Howells nor his gentle wife Olivia to wash out his mouth with soap. Mark Twain, says DeVoto, "was almost lustfully hypersensitive to sex in print; he was, in fact, as a writer, rather more prudish than Howells." This fact is subtly related to his limitations as a writer. He had a simple genius for making all males, of any age, come to life...