Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relatively easy to protect against contamination) from a strain of the mold, Penicillium notatum. In Dr. Coghill's laboratory, mycologists developed new, heavier-yielding strains. They also found that the mold's growth could be greatly speeded in a brew of lactose made from skimmed milk and steep liquor made from corn...
...years with the paratroopers, August Falen fell into two swamps, off a cliff, and rolled down a steep embankment, got a bad scar on his head, dislocated his right shoulder and pulled several ligaments, fractured his right knee cap, busted two ribs on his left side, bloodied his nose while being scraped along the ground by his parachute. He fainted when he reported for duty, was operated on for an infection in his left leg, saw a major of the Canadian Parachutists get cut in two in mid-air and two boys drowned in the Chattahoochee River, passed his jumping...
Watching the businesslike French Colonials fearlessly scale a steep hill in the face of heavy German machine-gun fire, a U.S. artillery major said: "God! If everybody had the heart to fight the way these Frenchmen...
...behind their questioning lay a suspicion, deeply rooted in the civilian U.S., which was emerging slowly but surely as World War II developed. Was the professional military reaching for too much power, grabbing money while the grabbing is good? Item: to some members $500,000,000 more seemed too steep for new shore-based Navy works within the U.S. when everything seemed to be moving overseas...
...months later, OSRD's team had put its Duck into production. The Duck has been invaluable in Pacific landing operations. It can carry 35 to 50 men, plows through heavy surf, drives in & out of steep shell holes...