Word: liverence
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...when the blockaded Bonins had no fresh meat, he hatched the idea that liver would soothe his gnawing stomach pains. The islands' commander, fat, bullnecked Lieut. General Yoshio Tachibana, had ordered all captured U.S. flyers executed. That was the chance Matoba had been waiting...
...Julius A. ("Cap") Krug, on a flying tour of Alaska, was banqueted with a difference when he dropped in on little Barrow, the continent's farthest-north town. Eskimos dined him in the schoolhouse. Spécialites de maison: barbecued caribou, seal cheek, roast walrus heart, fried seal liver, candied whale meat...
Died. William J. Gallagher, 71, retired street-cleaner who was elected to the 79th Congress from Minnesota's Third District, of a liver ailment; in Rochester, Minn. Said Representative Gallagher concerning his election: "This is the time for the common man, and I'm about as common as they come...
...have argued loudly about the subject for more than 20 years, have tried a vast variety of applications, including tannic acid (a component of tea), silver nitrate, hormone ointment, triple aniline dyes, sulphur water, cold water, ice, and a concoction of paraffin wax, sulfanilamide, menthol, camphor, vaseline and cod liver oil, the whole topped off by oil of eucalyptus to kill the smell...
Bjartur's children get no coddling: "I had boiled fish and tallow and cod-liver oil in my sucking-bag before I was a year old, and throve well on it." Food is scarce; winters are cold...