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...prepared," warned the London Daily Herald, "to learn from some military spokesman or semi-official syrup-dispenser that the situation in the Far East is scarcely relevant to the general trend of the war. Be prepared for the revival of soothing phrases about 'keeping a sense of perspective.' Be prepared for reminders that, my dear fellow, the real enemy is Germany, and for suggestions that the war with Japan is little more than an exciting side show...
...Square Garden, Eddie Cantor tripped over his hoopskirts, Swingstress Ella Logan swung Tipperary, Larry MacPhail bussed her, and Bill Robinson tap-danced in a gold-&-ermine suit on "Hitler's coffin." In Moscow, U.S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt sent over a plate of flapjacks and a can of maple syrup to Lord Beaverbrook. - Japan's Crown Prince Akihito, Tsuguno-Miya, 7, paddled peacefully in the Pacific, produced the jolliest picture...
...skinned alive: pulling apart stuck-together pieces of adhesive tape was the solution. Beheading acoustics were attained by slicing cantaloupes with a cleaver. Fingers were scissored off by substituting pencils for fingers. Dropping a raw egg on a plate simulated perfectly the blup of an eye-gouging. Flowing corn syrup furnished the voop-vulp of freely flowing blood. When a mechanical giant pulled a wretch's arm off, the leg of a cold storage chicken was pulled off beside the mike...
...gathered for the purpose a herd of very sturdy cows. Less than 5% of McKesson business comes from its own branded drugs, vulnerable to the scandalous publicity. Most of the rest is a distributing business, which wholesales some 48,000 different items, from alarm clocks to Coca-Cola syrup, to some 30,000 independent drugstores throughout...
...formation of gallstones, says Dr. Benmosché, is very like the process of cooking old-fashioned rock candy. In candymaking, slender threads are dropped into syrup, and sugar crystallizes around the threads. In the formation of gallstones: 1) the juices in the gall bladder become thickened by bacterial infection; 2) delicate cells drop off the bladder walls into the cavity, combine with the thick juices to form a tiny core; 3) cholesterol (one of the solids in bile) gathers around the nucleus, hardens into a stone...