Word: cheesecloth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piped over the loudspeakers. Onto the crowded floor marched a file of Irish bagpipers, each playing a different tune, and followed cacophonously by a swaying, cheering chain of drunks. Several floats joined the procession, but only one created much impression. It carried, along with half a dozen sylphs in cheesecloth, two hefty, blowzy nudes, obviously an impromptu inspiration...
Dropped in loose clusters of 14, or "amiable" clusters of 38, the finless oil-bombs are exploded by a time fuse four or five seconds after landing. Thereupon M-69s become miniature flamethrowers* that hurl cheesecloth socks full of furiously flaming goo for 100 yards. Anything these socks hit is enveloped by clinging, fiery pancakes, each spreading to more than a yard in diameter. Individually, these can be extinguished as easily as a magnesium bomb. But a single oil-bomb cluster produces so many fiery pancakes that the problem for fire fighters, like that of a mother whose child...
...would actually endanger the war effort and suppression solely because the criticism is embarrassing or inconvenient to some public group is admittedly difficult to draw. But it must be drawn with as much care as the line determining the freedom of the press, of speech, and of assembly. Holding cheesecloth over the mouth of radio commentators could very conceivably lead to the complete cutting off of all "derogatory opposition," first to the war in general, then to the particular military strategy of the day, and finally to any disagreements with a specific domestic policy...