Word: spray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...screams opposite me at dinner and talks with great crags of food projecting from her mouth." Musing on Niagara Falls, Poet Brooke wrote: "The river, with its multitudinous waves and its single current, likens itself to a life . . . And as incessant, as inevitable and as unavailing as the spray that hangs over the falls, is the white cloud of human crying...
Finally, the assembly heard reports on the work of missions sent out by the interim commission that preceded the present permanent organization (TIME, April 5). Said Dr. Neville Gordon, pipe-smoking British head of WHO field services, about DDT-spraying planes in Greece: "Our slow, low-flying planes could be shot down like ducks by anybody with a gun on a hill [but] the rebels even sent guides through the lines to our spraying teams, asking them to come up and spray rebel-held villages." In China, a WHO mission, with authorization of the Central government, is working in Communist...
...week, in Buffalo's Memorial Auditorium, 11,845 people waited impatiently for the preliminaries to end. At the cue, the amplifiers blared the Entry of the Gladiators and down the aisle strode James (George's valet) in morning coat, Kelly green vest and tie. He took a spray gun from a silver tray and began spraying the ring (George says that he just can't stand germs). The music stopped and a transcribed voice boomed excitedly: "Gorgeous George...
Slowing Malaria. The best news concerned man's No. 1 enemy in the tropics: malaria. Every year, malaria strikes 300,000,000 people, and kills 3,000,000 of them. But with the now common household spray DDT, "it is a safe statement that at least 90% of the malaria of the world can be wiped out in the next ten years, and that's conservative," said Dr. Fred Soper of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau...
Britten: Peter Grimes Excerpts (The Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eduard van Beinum conducting; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 6 sides). Amsterdam's orchestra, possibly Europe's best, puts salt and spray into the four sea interludes and passacaglia from Britten's opera (TIME, Feb. 16). Performance: excellent...