Word: bodkin
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...came for her wage, he noticed that his writing pencil was still gripped tight in his hand, so he ceremoniously placed both it and a penny in the girl's open palm. She glanced up quizzically, registered his smile, winked her good eye and plunged the pencil like a bodkin into one of her braids, shouting "Danken sie!" as she dashed off down ... Worth Street, Skaggs saw on the sign bolted to the lamppost. The single Negro among the city's lamplighters stood on his ladder wiping soot from the street sign with...
...case involved Dinah K. Bodkin, a former instructor at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and researcher at Brockton/West Roxbury Veterans Administration Medical Center, a Harvard-affiliated hospital...
...Bodkin claims she was fired from these positions because she reported what she claims were procedural lapses in the scientific study conducted by another HMS doctor. She says her dismissal violated the school's policies on reporting scientific problems, and ended her career as a research scientist. She is seeking $450,000 in damages. The case is still active...