Word: spit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there permanently closed it, so that no food could pass to his stomach. Surgeons had made a neat little hole in his stomach wall, inserted a rubber tube. Mr. V.'s method of eating was necessarily messy: he would first chew his food to enjoy the flavor, then spit it into a syringe, insert the syringe into his tube, and thus fill his stomach. Through the tube Dr. Carlson could observe, to his heart's content, Mr. V.'s sometimes quiescent, often restless stomach. For 13 years Mr. V. was employed in the laboratory, until he finally...
...manufacturers a report of facilities available to 15 ghost towns. He planned to farm out defense contracts (Britain's "bits & pieces" system) to these "shutdown areas," thereby spreading the work of subcontractors into its smallest possible subdivisions. Several moribund New England towns rolled up their sleeves and spit on their hands. But while the defense boom reclaimed old ghost towns, a new question rose: How many new ones would it create...
...Marines still have a fanatic pride in their Corps, accumulated through the years by service in foreign parts, in troublous times. As in 1800, Marines are still preoccupied with smart appearance, cling jealously to fancy dress uniforms of blue, scarlet and gold, raise their sea soldiers in the spit-&-polish tradition. A pressing table and a board for polishing brass buttons are as much a part of Marine equipment as rifles and bayonets. Marines have never forgotten that their crack-shooting riflemen in the tops of the Bon Homme Richard helped John Paul Jones to glory against Britain...
...Hampshire's grim, trumpet-voiced Senator Charles William Tobey, Republican head-hunter on the Senate Committee on Campaign Expenditures. He expected to be joined by Arkansas's Senator John Elvis Miller, a Democrat but no New Dealer. Senator Tobey got a room in Newark, whetted his ax, spit on his hands and took a stance. Just as he was about to swing, word came from Washington that Senator Miller could not appear, no one else on the committee could be spared, it would be highly improper for Republican Senator Tobey to sit alone on an investigation...
Digging a well in lonely northern Texas late in 1880, an oldtime settler sipped its water, spit it out in puckery disgust. Later he learned its medicinal value, watched mineral wells rapidly mushroom about him. Soon Mineral Wells, Tex. became a mecca for U. S. health seekers. One of them was a woman with a brain disordered by menopause. She lived to a sane old age and the font from which she had sipped was christened Crazy Well...