Word: squirts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seen my duty and I done it," said he, properly embarrassed by his fame. "I'd just see one, give him a squirt and go up again, look around, see another, give him a squirt, then go up again, look around and repeat. There were: a lot of them around and it was just a matter of shooting at them...
...bomb was screaming down near by. As it whisked overhead the sound changed to something like "a giant whistling teakettle on the boil." It disappeared over the far horizon before you could say "knife." After a while, neighborhood people got used to it, even gave it a nickname: "The Squirt...
...flying red horse (Mobilgas), fireman's hat (Texaco), sea shell (Shell Petroleum) and other symbols of pre-war preferences in gasolines may still swing in the wind, but the pumps under the signs are soon likely to squirt only one kind and color. Last week WPB empowered the Petroleum Coordinator to pool gasoline distribution, which will probably mean mixed brands and minimum standards, with only the "regular" grade available. Even this will not be so regular as before: octane ratings were cut to around 74 last February; henceforth, according to one industry guess, they will run about...
Senator Bunker is a serious Young Democrat, a Mormon Bishop who was ap pointed to the Senate in 1940, who had heretofore held his peace while learning the ropes. But to Emperor Jones, he was just an annoying young squirt. Jones dashed off a hot reply...
Quickly built, the Otter had her first trials. "Very satisfactory," chuffed Secretary Knox. People began to believe that whole shoals of Sea Otters would shortly squirt out of U.S. shipyards, start bobbing across the Atlantic in schools. But nothing happened. Two months ago Mr. Knox finally admitted the idea was dead...