Word: chisel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea of immortalizing tombstone carving one weekend after stumbling on a weed-grown graveyard near the hamlet of Colrain, Mass. She and Neal started boning up on New England stonecutters, found that most of them had been Yankee Jacks-of-all-trades who knew how to use chisel and mallet. One stonecutter, John Stevens of Newport, R.I., set up a shop for himself in 1705 that is still in operation after being handed down through generations of stonecutters...
Down through the ages, surgeons have used hammer and chisel, a variety of butchers' saws, and something like poultry shears whenever their work has forced them to tackle the difficult job of cutting through bone. Small wonder that they have been dubbed "sawbones," or that they have always hated the unpleasant word. And it was small wonder last week, when 2,500 sawbones swarmed into Miami Beach for the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, that what interested them most was a new and versatile drill saw that promised to ease their bone-sawing work even...
...stove, where it sizzled deliciously. In a great favorite called The Laboratory of Hallucinations, a surgeon operated on the brain of his wife's lover, pinching here, clamping there, until he had turned the fellow utterly mad. The patient then got up off the table and drove a chisel through the doctor's forehead. Audiences used to faint, shriek, and vomit in the alley outside the theater. One night the house doctor was summoned to the aid of a fallen customer, but the doctor himself had collapsed...
...affinity of the tragic and the daemonic is the chisel with which to cut in relief the face of many an artist," said Leo Schrade Wednesday night in the first of his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures on "Tragedy in the Art of Music...
...horror of the black-suited money managers of Zurich and Geneva, the Swiss government is about to chisel a small chink in this wall of secrecy. Next month it plans to push through a law requiring banking organizations to surrender to a government bureau all information concerning assets belonging to "racially, politically or religiously persecuted foreigners or stateless persons." The bill is the result of long prompting from Israel, which is convinced that huge fortunes were left in Switzerland by Jews who later died in Hitler's gas chambers. Since accounts inactive for 20 years revert to the banks...