Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep from pulling the boners which kept him in continual hot water for the first year and a half of his term, Harry Truman now never makes a decision the first time an important problem is brought to him. The question first goes for study to his four-man staff: Adviser Clark Clifford, Assistant John Steelman (still a White House big shot despite his labor bobbles), Secretaries Charlie Ross (press) and Matt Connelly (agenda). Clifford decides what Cabinet officers or other Administration officials should be called in for consultation, sets up a special subcommittee to chew on the problem. Major...
...city boiled and throbbed around them, as their house became part of Harlem and Negroes seeped into their neighborhood, they lived in greater & greater seclusion. They boarded up the windows of their old brownstone. Despite their wealth-estimated at more than $100,000-they stopped paying their bills. Their water, electricity and gas were shut off. For a while Langley tried to "make my own electricity" with an automobile generator. Then they were content to cook and heat their big house with a small kerosene stove, and fetch demijohns of water four blocks from Mount Morris Park...
...Verdeur churned himself half out of the water at every stroke. His nearest pur suer in the N.C.A.A. 200-yard breaststroke finals was yards behind. After he had reached the finish in Seattle's University of Washington pool, Joe's winning time was announced as 2:16.8. It was al most three seconds better than the official world record - but four-tenths worse than Joe's performance of the previous week...
Fifty patients had come to the Mayo Clinic complaining (among other things) of toothache and the gradual erosion of their front teeth. The dentists discovered that all of them had been addicted, for months or years, to lemon-sucking-or to an early morning drink of lemon juice and water. Some patients' teeth were worn down to the gums. Mayo's experts decided that their tooth enamel must have been eaten away by the citric acid in lemons...
...forth by his soan. He was but a dog in the eyes of his soan. Lonesome he was for old carnival times, for the merke [a fair], for wild music . . . and wild fammen [maidens]. Lonesome he was for It Aide Lan [the old country] where canals were sweet with water lilies, where storks built nests on high...