Word: whetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...researchers could report no comparable success. But they had at least some good news: they have concentrated the substance (a protein) that stimulates white cells to devour invading bacteria and thus makes them the body's shock troops against infection. If an injection could whet the white cells' appetite, it would be a powerful reinforcement of the body's natural defenses...
...airport 6:30 a.m.. where we took a chartered four-motored plane ... to the Wai-taki Project . . . We were met by cars and driven to the Waitaki hydroelectric project, [where] the ladies were served coffee and cakes. Very sumptuous, but I'm afraid will not whet our appetites for the big luncheon at the mess hall...
...majorleague newcomer, will broadcast 26 home games and 30 on the road. And Cleveland is making an experiment this season that other cities are watching: no home games will be telecast, but all road games will be seen on Cleveland TV screens. The hope is that this will whet the fans' appetite for the home games. If Cleveland's paid attendance improves radically, many other teams may switch to the same plan...
...concentrator in an outside field who hankers for a passing acquaintance with English literature is in a worse state. Lacking the necessary time, inclination or experience to plow into a course stressing criticism, or concentrating on a few selected authors, this sort of student needs an elementary survey to whet his appetite for the subject...
...early days of television, newsmen often made dire predictions that TV would cut deeply into newspaper circulation. But they soon found out they were wrong; TV reporting of major news events seemed to whet readers' appetites for stories about them. Last week, when 40 million TV-viewers watched the British coronation, soaring newspaper sales all over the U.S. proved again that newspaper circulation thrives on TV. Said the New York Daily News: "Movie reels were rushed across the Atlantic . . . and fed into TV as fast as they arrived. The radio . . . brought the sounds of the coronation...