Word: turnip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month, paid in advance, clients of the Ross-Loos Clinic get any kind of doctoring or surgery they may require. This looks very much like the turnip of medical insurance and the beet of corporate medical practice, both of which nauseate the A. M. A. When Drs. Ross & Loos acquired 40,000 clients and a staff of 50 doctors, the A. M. A. expelled them. Subsequently lawyers forced the A. M. A. to take Drs. Ross & Loos back into the fold, on the technicality of an unfair trial...
Down toward the base of the X-chromosome is a sudden bulge followed by a gradual tapering to normal diameter. This is the "turnip segment." It contains, first, a heavy band in two segments, then a faint dotted line, a stronger dotted line, a diffuse double line, a faint dotted line. In the Bar flies Dr. Bridges found this arrangement in duplicate. In the Bar-double it was tripled. In the Bar-reverted it returned to the single sequence...
Another dinner, served in October, 1725, included pork, cheese, "fowle," butter, "beafe," carrots, turnip, apple pie, and wine, and cost 22 shillings, or about $5. Apple pie and wine almost always were on the dinner menu in those days, the ledger shown...
...payroll, Bob Sweitzer reluctantly went home without a job. Where the missing $414,129 was coming from, still no one could say. But next day the State's prosecutors promised criminal action against ousted Treasurer Sweitzer on the theory that, while you cannot get blood out of a turnip, you can put the turnip in jail...
Said Senator Thomas Gore, who believes the best way to start real inflation is to repeal all laws against counterfeiting: "I have more faith in turnip patches. They provide feed for animals and food for people...