Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pine; Negroes, staring wall-eyed from weather-grey shacks; from shacks no better, poor whites whose grand pappies saw the Confederates run the Yanks off this same land; a new oil find, 30 miles south of prosperous Alexandria; cotton, corn, potatoes, rice where cane grew until Louisiana sugar prices went to pot. Yellow signs reading: TROOPS, KEEP OUT hung on fence posts and trees. These signs marked farms whose owners had refused the Army permission to cross their land. One officer, seeking such permission before the troops arrived, had the tallest yarn of the maneuvers. Turned down by a backwoods...
...people of Britain-who could hear the roar of artillery across the Channel, who were short of sugar and bacon, who patrolled their roads day & night on the lookout for parachutists-Winston Churchill at week's end made an eloquent radio speech, telling them that worse was in store for them in a war that would be fought to the end. High points...
...where it specially flourished among the Pennsylvania Germans. Bearded homeopaths, whose only knowledge of medicine was gained by mulling over the master's German writings (Organon; Chronic Diseases, Their Nature and Homeopathic Treatment; Materia Medica Pura), traveled from village to village handing out little colored sugar pills from their shabby black bags, fighting bitter trade wars with orthodox, "allopathic" physicians...
...blades vary from a tiny jeweler's bandsaw blade (thickness: .005 in.) with 88 teeth to the inch, to a ten-foot spiral, inserted-tooth monster used for lumber and metal cutting (two were ordered last week for Allied munitions plants). Disston knives, files and other tools cut sugar beets, chop gunpowder, smooth bricks, polish playing-card backs, perforate newspapers, slice caramels. Disston saws also go to amateur musicians and into vaudeville at the rate of about 500 a year. Specially made, musical saws are flat-ground, straight-backed, smooth so the notes will run through the whole blade...
...usually associated with heat. All solids begin to glow at 525° C. But many other agencies besides heat can produce light-rubbing, fracture, pounding, excitation by electricity or short-wave radiation, etc. Surgeon's tape emits a greenish glow when stripped from a roll. Lumps of sugar luminesce when rubbed together. Quartz pebbles shine when struck by a hammer...