Word: voodooed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME, Jan. 5, 1953), rum-swigging onetime U.S. Navy pharmacist's mate, who landed in Haiti in 1927 during the long (1915-34) Marine occupation, stayed on when the troops went home, as director of the country's only insane asylum, took up the study of voodoo, became a houngan (priest) and internationally famed explicator of the jungle rites; of a heart attack; at his wattled hut near Port-au-Prince...
...Demon & Voodoo. Founded in 1939 by Engineer-Airman McDonnell with the help of the Rockefellers, the company taxied around until after World War II doing mostly subcontract and experimental work. Finally it took off with the first production order for a plane of its own design, the FH1 Phantom, the Navy's first carrier-based jet fighter. Other orders (800 planes) followed for its second plane, the F2H Banshee. What almost proved McDonnell's undoing was No. 3, an ambitious supersonic carrier fighter called the F3H Demon. It proved too heavy for its Navy-specified Westinghouse engine...
Since then, McDonnell has come along fast. From a strictly Navy supplier, the company became a pillar of the Air Force with $1.2 billion worth of orders for its burly F101 Voodoo jet, a plane fast (1,200 m.p.h.) and versatile enough to perform every job from tactical A-bomber to all-weather interceptor. McDonnell went into missiles and helicopters, landed an $8,000,000 contract for its XV1 convertiplane, another $45 million for its high-speed Quail bomber decoy drone. Latest project: the supersonic (Mach 2 plus) F4H fighter, which beat out Chance Vought's F8U3 Crusader...
...less lethal than some of the swizzle sticks used to stir it. So warned the U.S. Public Health Service, which acted after a recent party at Sylvan Hills High School in suburban Atlanta. As favors, the students received swizzle sticks topped by a little head fashioned like a Haitian voodoo figure. Within an hour, about 50 of the partygoers broke out in a rash, much like ivy poisoning. It could have been worse, reported the U.S. Occupational Health laboratory in Cincinnati...
...confiscated 6,290 sticks from Chicago novelty shops and taverns. It picked up more from recent visitors to Haiti, including 60 from an accountant who spent all week phoning friends to get back the 40 other sticks he gave away as presents. The Haitian Public Health Service also confiscated voodoo swizzle sticks at the source, but nobody knows how many are still hexing U.S. drinkers...