Word: cheesecloth
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...Boston was haunted by a fox for a whole week. Night watchmen would spot him skimming along the corridors and noted he kept fat on State House mice and leftovers from legislators' luncheons. Finally the fox was cornered in a basement tunnel hideout, doped with chloroform-impregnated cheesecloth on a long pole and later released in rolling New England woodland...
Packages from New York. By last week Francesco had mailed 1,200 big, square packages, each carefully sewn up in cheesecloth to discourage pilferers. But there were more than 500 letters piled in boxes in the barber shop last week and more coming every day. "If I had the money I've spent on these letters the last few years," he says, "I could retire now. My friends tell me to quit. But what you gonna do? If you have the heart for it, you can do anything...
...drawing red lines on continuous rolls of graphed paper. These machines report each variation, no matter how slight, in the seismograph below ground. Visitors are only allowed to peer through a small glass window into the red-lit room two flights down. There they can see, beneath sinister-looking cheesecloth covered frames, the delicate equipment that records every movement within the earth, from an earthquake in Peru to a construction blast in Westchester. So far it hasn't recorded any atomic blasts, though--too small a disturbance...
...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...