Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...childish nonsensel! Ach ja, Hitler did lose the war for us, but did we not suffer enough? I am no Nazi . . ." Nodding heads in the group indicated that no one was, or indeed ever had been, a Nazi. ". . . but trying to force your Democracy on us like an insect spray, ja it was too silly...
Last week Herman continued his spray attack with a 79-page book, You and Segregation, which, while avoiding direct mention of Walter George, nevertheless emphasized the fact that Author Talmadge is a far more violent critic of the Supreme Court's desegregation decision than Senator George, who has made a career out of moderation...
...rising cost of the new four-barrel carburetors has closed the cost gap while several practical stock-car systems have been developed. In present carburetors, gasoline is mixed with air, then sucked into the cylinders through the manifold. With a fuel-injection system, small pumps attached to each cylinder spray the fuel-air mixture under pressure directly into the firing chamber. With better engine breathing and more accurate fuel control, the system gives faster acceleration, particularly at low speeds, more effective horsepower and more gas mileage...
...Dienbienphu and Kuala Lumpur. In the Pusan perimeter, the bugs got out of hand when Army medics had to lay down their DDT guns and pick up Mis. Since this realization, U.S. forces have had relatively little trouble (only 30 cases, two deaths on Okinawa this year). They spray mosquito lairs, sleep under nets; in a tough combat situation they would slaughter all the nesting birds they could find...
...spray was a little thick at times, and the umbrellas occasionally blocked the view, but for anyone seeing his first Harvard football game in three years, Saturday's Baker Field Aquacade provided an eminently satisfying spectacle. A pleasure, indeed, it was to see a Crimson eleven play such alert, aggressive, and, above all, relentless football against a team which, as even the lachrymose Mr. Little once remarked, "Always seems to get the breaks against Harvard...