Word: maltreatment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Red of his prospective opponents: "Let these hams primp their feathers and strut their plumes. I will proceed to maltreat and obliterate them. I will turn loose such terrific voltage and velocity and elliptical trajectory that when it lands on the cleft of the chin it will tear loose their medulla oblongata from the pericranium, cure them of chronic dandruff and knock out four of their impacted wisdom teeth." Whereupon Wild Red went into the ring and was promptly disqualified by the referee for refusing to break a hold when ordered. Wild Red took a deep breath and applied...
...machine: a foot-high aluminum cylinder with an electrically activated heart. The heart's beatings create sound waves too high for the human ear to hear. The waves ripple through the wash water, driving soapy jets through the tightest-woven cloth. There are no drum or paddles to maltreat the clothes. The machine, says Fairbanks Ward can wash its own weight (14 lbs.) in clothes at one time...
...keynote speech. It was, in its way, a classic-the kind of old-fashioned political speech, as simple as a morality play, in which the forces of good (led by Archangels Wilson, F.D.R. and Truman) meet the forces of darkness, and thwart their plot to form atomic monopolies and maltreat widows and orphans...