Word: brine
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...with piles driven down to bed rock. The cut & cover method (trench-like excavation covered with wooden flooring) necessitated digging through a tangle of telephone cables, power lines, water mains, gas pipes, pneumatic mail tubes, sewer pipes, steam mains, telegraph wires, police and fire alarm lines, conduits for refrigerator brine, burglar alarm wires, quotation ticker lines, traffic signal wires. Without suspending these services, the pipes and wires had to be slung from the flooring or rerouted on the surface. Where the cut & cover method was not adaptable, direct tunneling had to be done-sometimes with compressed air and a shield...
thaws lent the brine...
...preview peek at the count. As if the opposition candidate had any hopes of winning in spite of the preposterously fixed election, the Government assembled truckloads of pistoleros to keep Almazanistas from getting nosy. One Government spokesman was admirably frank. Said he, apparently in English, to Jack O'Brine of the New York Herald Tribune: "If they approach any of the vote-counting places with arms tomorrow, we will shoo them away with a 't' on the end of the 'shoo...
...keeps well and is handy to use. It is superior to the usual nasal pack in that it is easier to introduce, and it is more comfortable for the patient, whose only complaint is that the salt causes smarting for a few minutes. . . . Salt pork is easily kept in brine and does not disintegrate. Pork fat does not harbor the parasites (trichinae) that might be present in muscle...