Word: squirt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defending the NRA and AAA, there still remain unemployment, agriculture, an unbalanced budget, a rising bureaucracy, and "the black magic of a managed currency" to account for. The Hoover speeches have repeatedly raised issues which the New Deal can answer only by "the smoke screen of personalities" and the "squirt gun of propaganda...
...Cardinal's flock?Alfred Emanuel Smith, who was to speak on "Communism or Communionism" at the Cleveland Congress. Last week before departing on the Cardinal's special train, Al Smith publicly took a spray gun in hand, gave the grey stone wall of St. Patrick's Cathedral the first squirt of a chemical preparation which is to clean, harden and preserve...
...gall bladder is a slender, pear-shaped sac attached to the under side of the liver. Its purpose is to receive, concentrate and store the bile which the liver produces and, after a meal containing bacon, cream or other fats, to squirt some of its supply into the intestines. Typhoid fever germs occasionally slip into the gall bladder and tenaciously resist all medical efforts to dislodge them. They make a chronic typhoid carrier of the person whose gall bladder they infest...
...Chamber. A stocky man with a large flat face and slightly twisted nose was standing at a desk. Mr. Minton, who went to the Senate only last January, had never seen the gentleman open his mouth before except 1) to take a chew of Five Brothers* and squirt tobacco juice at the spittoon beside his chair; 2) to pass the time of day with one of his strolling colleagues; 3) to vote "aye" on Administration measures. Indeed the Senate had only heard that voice once before, in March year ago, when it delivered a short homily in favor of Franklin...
...past 27 years the Flexner type of serum has been standard treatment for cerebro-spinal meningitis. The doctor sticks a hollow needle into the patient's rigid spine. Out squirts a quantity of the germ-laden cerebro-spinal fluid, which has been imprisoned under pressure. When the squirt slows down the doctor injects the serum...