Word: swab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a time when the C.I.O.'s highhanded, Red-tinted National Maritime Union could & would tie up a ship at the drop of a seaman's swab. Last week, when the United States Lines' S.S. America docked in New York with a sizzling labor dispute aboard, company officials prepared for the worst. The union's delegate, a wiry, intense ship's electrician named Walter Avellar, had served an ultimatum: either the company fired Chief Crew Steward W. S. McDonald and reinstated two seamen, or the ship would not sail. Roared grim-jawed, grim-tempered...
...alone every night I was away from Jack.") Correspondent James Desmond of the tabloid New York Daily News gravely reported that her shipboard life was not all ecstasy, but "something too unglamorous for the fragile fabric of illicit love." (The headline: TIGHTWAD LOVER HAD ME SWAB DECKS...
...swarthy Mexican Indian sat dolefully on one of the clinic's bright, white beds and wrinkled his nose at the strange odor of Lysol. Suddenly his eyes widened slightly. Bearing down on him, with a hypodermic in one hand and an alcohol swab in the other, was a blonde American girl. "Caramba" he muttered, "Me va a injector la hueral" The girl smiled politely, swiftly completed her job, then turned to a sobbing little Indian boy. "No tengas miedo" she promised. Then she pulled down his pants, gave him an injection in the backside and hurried on to another...
...grab your palls and swab your decks
...Alcohol. Some of the most expensive restaurants had bacteria counts as high as 4,800 to a cup (test is made by swabbing out a utensil with wet sterile cotton and culturing the swab). The maximum the law allows is 100. One drug store had 86,000 bacteria to a cup-no surprise to customers who have watched lunch-counter dishwashing with horrified fascination. Some New York City beer glasses, which usually get a split-second rinse in lukewarm water, had a count of 55,000, but in a survey of an unnamed city last year the Public Health Service...