Word: swab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seizing on Buie as a good omen, Knox's crew last week invited him to join their ship. He was, after all, the luckiest swab-by in Uncle Sam's Navy...
...shouted "Hände hoch!" Then it was his own countrymen that Paul worried about; he had to crouch for cover in the midst of an abdominal operation as R.A.F. rocket-firing Typhoons attacked. Writes Paul: "All I could do was keep a firm hand pressed on a swab over the wound to prevent the viscera slipping out of the patient's abdomen...
That Sunday morning, during a smoke break, he had found some of the recruits stretched out on the grass, even sleeping, in totally un-bootlike posture. Although it was Sunday, he had ordered a "field day" -a complete cleanup of the barracks with swab, scrub brush, creosote and yellow soap. At supper that evening the watchful McKeon had noticed that some of his boots took second helpings of dessert, despite his warning (as one recruit recalled) "against overeating sweets, especially when out on the rifle range. It makes shooting more difficult." With calm detachment, McKeon ordered another scrubdown...
Though there is less hazing than at West Point, first-year men must swab the barracks, serve in the mess hall, stand motionless whenever a North Star (four-year man) passes by. Demerits come for everything from dozing in class to "questioning an officer"-a rule designed to keep cadets from humiliating inexperienced instructors with tricky questions...
Taking a long leap into a hypothetical future, Dr. Sabin foresaw a day when babies will have their throats swabbed with his vaccine before they are six months old, while they are still protected by inherited antibodies. Or, others sug gest, people of any age could get tem porary immunity from a single Salk shot then parlay it into virtual lifetime immunity with a Sabin swab...