Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thrombosis, the specialists reported last week, is no longer so dreaded. In the past two years investigators have had notable results with two anti-clotting drugs: heparin and dicumarol. Heparin is a substance in the liver and lungs first isolated in 1916; dicumarol is found in spoiled sweet clover (its anti-clotting property was first discovered when it was found that cattle feeding on it sometimes bled to death). Both drugs prevent clots from forming...
...rewrote the Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and called it Time Stands Still. He converted Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf into Dingbat the Singing Cat and is now waiting for When I Write My Song (from Saint-Saens' aria My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice) to make the Hit Parade. Rimsky-Korsakov's Hymn to the Sun became Mossman's To Love a Dream...
...gurgled and ran dry in thousands of London homes, and once again Londoners were queuing up on the streets, this time with jugs and cans, to wait for a cooling ration from city water carts and hydrants. In many a London kitchen, where the milk is kept cool and sweet by standing in a bucket of wafer, housewives philosophically turned their curdling ration to pot cheese...
...maggoty, and was spelled down. When Mattie Lou got it right, and zipped off chlorophyll to clinch the championship, tears came to Sonya's eyes. Schoolmarm Phillips told her: "Sugar, don't you shed a tear, because you did so sweet." Champion Mattie Lou was crying a little, too. Said she to Sonya: "I wish you had won instead...
...Department of Agriculture reached into the nation's sugar bowl last week and pulled out some sweet news for housewives. The allotment for civilian users in the third quarter of 1947 will be raised to 1,970,000 tons, some 350,000 more than in the same period last year. To speed up sugar distribution, the department announced that 1) sugar stamp 12, which originally was to become valid July 1, could be used immediately, and 2) another stamp for ten pounds-bringing the year's total ration so far up to 35 pounds per user-will...