Word: lyes
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...lively dew. At times they garnish their mash with manure to speed fermentation; occasionally a rat, hog or snake crawls into the vat, gobbles its fill dies, and floats there until the batch of moonshine is ready for the still. Sometimes the fermenting corn is tinctured with Clorox or lye to beef up its punch (moonshine is rarely more than 75 proof...
...Harley Stansberry of Sterling, Colo., did some heavy washing in her basement two months ago, and she was extra careful to empty her tub of lye water well away from little Mike, who was playing on the floor near by. But Mike, 28 months, found the drain hose, and some of the lye solution was still in it. Mike swallowed and screamed. His mother rushed him to a doctor, who gave him mineral oil and kept him on soothing milk and ice cream for three weeks. But one morning Mike could no longer swallow: scar tissue had closed his esophagus...
...aged. That workers expressed allegiance to Swift & Co. did not mean that they really liked their jobs or had no grievances. Positive "pride of work" was uncommon, Father Purcell found. Exceptional was the man who said: "I got one of the toughest jobs in the soap house. Work with lye. They say I'm one of the only ones who can do it . . . See these scars on my arms . . . ? I'm interested in my work...
...announced that it had seized some Alabama moon shine whisky, selling for $2 a pint, made from the following ingredients: half a gal lon of water, one quart of orange juice, two pints of gin, one small jar of sassafras flavoring, a dash of sugar, half a can of lye...
...sponsor, the fun-loving brothers daubed the heads and bellies of seven blindfolded pledges with a noxious mixture of ketchup, mustard, egg yolk and water. The pledges promptly broke out in skin blisters ; one got a badly burned eye. Suspecting that heavyhanded undergraduates had fouled up the recipe with lye or turpentine, the interfraternity council decreed that Hofstra will hereafter have no hazing...