Word: wade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never Say Die. In Kemmerer, Wyo., Sherman Wade, skinning a dead horse, hit a nerve, got a kick in the face...
...Hickory got so mad he roared: "My name is Andrew Jackson, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with snapping turtle. I can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride a streak of lightning, slip without a scratch down the honey locust, whip my weight in wildcats, hug a bear too close for comfort and eat anybody opposed to the COMMON MAN! Come on, boys, let's get Nicholas Biddle...
...wall. This week New York City's 850,000 children, returning to classes, found something else there-a copy of the San Francisco Charter. For those old enough to understand it, the Charter will also be a text for study. For those too young, School Superintendent John E. Wade hopes the framed Charter will become, like the Constitution, something to look...
...when impeachment proceedings were brought against Andrew Johnson, the next in line was Senate President pro tem Benjamin Wade of Ohio. Had there been one more vote in favor of impeachment, a tie would have resulted and Wade could have voted himself into the White House...
Schistosomiasis is caused by a small fluke found in pools and running streams which in a matter of seconds burrows through the skin and infects the individual. All water found to contain these flukes is posted and personnel is warned not to bathe, wade or wash in it. The flukes, which usually attack the intestines and liver, are rarely lethal. They may cause a fever at first, followed by steady, prolonged discomfort and ill health. One bad schistosomiasis area is Okinawa...