Word: staines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain had highhandedly agreed to give Russia concessions in the territory of their ally (see INTERNATIONAL). Chinese indignation was heightened by the continued failure of Soviet troops to honor their pledge and quit Manchuria. Seven high Government officials had signed a petition denouncing the Yalta pact as a "dark stain" on U.S. and British relations with China...
...important results of wartime research were announced last week: ¶ SN 7618 is an antimalaria drug described by OSRD as "five or six times better" than atabrine. It relieves acute attacks faster and may be taken weekly, instead of daily. Unlike atabrine, it does not stain the skin or cause nausea. It costs no more to produce...
Monkey Business. In Portland, Ore., several monkeys in the zoo found some walnuts, discovered that the natural stain in the husks made a fine cosmetic, painted themselves gaudy greens and golds. In New Orleans, a pet monkey, egged on by two small boys, climbed into an "iron claw" slot machine, garnered $60 worth of clocks, fishing reels, and other knickknacks...
...single issue of the New York Times readers wrote: "It is a stain upon our national life. . . ." "It is simply mass murder, sheer terrorism. . . ." "Let us . . . dump the whole thing into the Atlantic or Pacific . . . man is too frail to be entrusted with such power...
...rocks, preparing to drown themselves, but evidently weakening in their decision. The Jap sniper took aim. He drilled the man from behind, dropping him into the sea. The second bullet hit the woman. She dragged herself about 30 ft. along the rocks. Then she floated out in a stain of blood. The sniper would have shot the children, but a Japanese woman ran across and carried them out of range. The sniper walked defiantly out of his cave, and crumpled under a hundred marine bullets...