Word: barb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...professor of animal drawing at the Paris zoological museum. Until his death in 1875, he maintained his own foundry. He filed down his casts to hair-fine detail, worked his own warm greenish-brown patina into their glittery pelts. After Barye's death, a wholesale Paris founder named Barbédienne began casting Barye's sculptures by droves with the help of a new reproducing machine that the founder claimed "did for sculpture what Gutenberg had long before done for the written thought." The machine triumphed: cheap copies of the work of les animaliers became as plentiful...
...took ten minutes. Surgeon Erwin Jennings, 38, put the king-sized needle between Fairman's fourth and fifth ribs, aimed for the right ventricle. Jennings knew when he had hit it, because electrical impulses from Fairman's heart were transmitted through the wire. A fishhook type of barb on the end of the wire set it in the heart muscle...