Word: vinegared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hippocrates preferred enemas to purges, but the Greeks rejected the strange concoctions of bile, vinegar, etc. used by other peoples in favor of water or simple salt solutions, perhaps with a little oil or honey added. Centuries later, physicians in medieval Spain described the nutrient enema and the first bulb syringes...
...program was started and is owned by the Masquers Club, whose members are Hollywood stars. Campbell Soup pays them $15,000 a week. Much of the credit goes to Writers Jerome Lawrence, 30, and Robert E. Lee, 27, both from Armed Forces Radio and full of fizz and vinegar. Lee and Lawrence have faithfully heeded some 5,000-a-week listeners' requests, personally answered impossible pleas such as finding apartments or proposing marriage...
...bettors happy, was flabbergasted. "This has been a severe shock to me," she said. "I love my horses. They're so beautiful. They were my toys. And now this calamity after such wonderful success. . ." Said Trainer Smith, admitting that he had long used a mixture of salt, vinegar and ephedrine (to clear up horses' heads): "The quantity and quality of ... the so-called drug ... is infinitesimal and could not have affected [the horse's] racing condition...
...Normandy, 13 months ago, U.S. foot soldiers were engaged in no large-scale operations anywhere in the world. But last week the ground force commanders-and the admirals who put them ashore-left no doubt that such idleness would be shortlived. The Tenth Army's "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell told his troops he hoped they would be home by next Independence Day. Admiral Thomas Cassin Kinkaid of the Seventh Fleet was for keeping up the pressure, "so Japan can't get back on balance...
...days after Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., commander of the Tenth Army, was killed in battle, General MacArthur appointed "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell as his successor. Buckner had been fighting in an area (Okinawa) supposedly controlled by Admiral Nimitz. But word trickled through that Admiral Nimitz was as satisfied with the Stilwell appointment as was the U.S. generally...