Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arthritic deformities-hopelessly gnarled hands or clumsily stiffened joints where two bones have calcified together-"are too often due to neglect" and can largely be avoided. Treatment: simple exercises and a simple splint worn for part of each day. Warm dips, as in old-age rheumatism, are helpful. Curious fact: pregnancy usually brings temporary relief to arthritic women...
...thrust the dagger. His ideas may or may not coincide with those of the Allied high command, and with its plans for the Canadians. But wherever he is, at the British War Office or at U.S. headquarters in London, General McNaughton always has with him a portfolio of thumb-worn maps. They are maps of the coast of northern France, where Hitler's Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt waits with his guns...
...down both coasts last week some 125,000 weather-worn fishermen bemoaned a wartime paradox: despite high prices and the biggest demand ever, many a fisherman loafs at home while many a home goes without fish. Chief reason: more than 400 of the biggest and most efficient fishing boats, Navy-manned, are now hard at work as mine sweepers and patrol boats. Japanazi submarines keep all but the most daring fishermen close inshore...
When 50-odd summer-theater operators met in Manhattan this spring and decided to reopen this summer, they decided to gamble against gas rationing. Since then, the Straw Hat Theater has worn out its sweat band from worry, and the printing of A cards has held up the printing of programs...
...applied by anybody, by brushing it on a worn tire, waiting until the first coat dries, brushing on some more (though it is best applied mechanically...