Word: squirt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ants need not have drowned [TIME, Aug. 28] had they realized the potentialities of jet propulsion. As a boy in western Washington, I used to toss large black ants into our quarry swimming hole. After a few preliminary struggles to orient themselves to the nearest shore, they would squirt a jet of formic acid from a convenient rear port and be shot six or eight inches nearer safety. Not being streamlined (and rudderless), these insects would re-aim and repeat the process until they were able to scramble out. Perhaps our Western ants are just smarter...
Reporter Melady gets the truth in the end, and Nathan gets two of the Aycocks before he is cornered and driven to suicide. But the characters are a mighty long time aflounderin' around in the Southern-cliche brakes before release comes. Streams of tobacco juice squirt in all directions, brass spittoons chime, calico dresses strain around the exciting hips of 15-year-old girls, and somewhere a mockingbird sings...
After weeks of shopping around, Packard's 65-year-old Treasurer Hugh Ferry agreed to take the job temporarily. Ferry, who had joined Packard in 1910 when some drivers still carried ammonia to squirt at dogs snapping at their tires, was no production man. But he knew Packard inside out, and got the top brass working more smoothly. Dealers have been jacked up, the sales organization expanded and the new model hustled along...
...Yalies have contracted with a national manufacturer for hundreds of the squirt guns, according to the News article. The students distribute the pistols to local retailers, stipulating that the guns be sold at double the usual market price...
...infield grass. Ernie's Enterprises, a St. Louis firm, announced that it had orders for 50,000 Eagle Beaks-hornrimmed spectacles with large false noses attached to them. U.S. citizens were also snapping up Miss Gorgeous Blond Fan Dancing Photos (smiles and dances before your eyes), Nature Boy Squirt Ash Trays, Hollywood Floating Cutie Doll Pencils, Goofy Eggs (won't stand still unless you know the secret) and Magic Light Bulbs (mysteriously lights while held in your hand...