Word: blistering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...employees are an extraordinarily healthy lot, the records kept by her staff have proved very useful to doctors needing accurate information about someone's health history. This kind of care occasionally has other ramifications. A husband happened to drop in with his wife, who had a blister on her heel. While examining the blister, Miss Ryerson glanced at the husband and, in a way that nurses have, reached for a thermometer and stuck it in his mouth. The upshot of it was that the innocent husband, like any TIMEman, went home with a pocket full of cold pills...
Ashore, Sugino learned of the adulation accorded him at home for his promotion to glory. Rather than surrender his godlike reputation and disappoint the folks, Sugino settled down to nearly a half century's hiding in Hulutao, a bleak blister on Manchuria's coast. But in Japan his fame grew with the years, reached fruition when death-seeking members of the Special Attack Corps began hurling then-frail planes into U.S. warships at Lingayen Gulf and Okinawa...
...impressed, too, by the de luxe valet service in the locker room and the assemblage of 129 stars from 22 nations. It was Wimbledon's first All-England championship jamboree since 1939, and the only cloud in Kramer's sky was a blister the size of a quarter on his playing hand...
...quite understood how Kramer got the blister so late in the season. By using a special glove, the rangy No. 1 hope of U.S. amateur tennis* whizzed through the first three rounds. His big serve was working fine. In the fourth round, he met thickset, bespectacled Jaroslav Drobny, a Czechoslovakian left-hander who also had a big serve. They slammed it out, Kramer aggressively, Drobny methodically. The second set went to an exhausting 17-15 and Kramer developed new blisters, discarded his glove. He winced on each drive to Drobny's vulnerable spot, the backhand. In the end, Kramer...
...Blister rust cannot live on pine alone. The spores which leave the pine must find a temporary resting place on the leaves of currant or gooseberry bushes. There they develop as parasitic growths which generate a new and different generation of windborne spores which, in turn, infect the pines. These bushes are the chief points of attack for the conservation army. Once the host is destroyed, blister rust must ultimately...