Word: chiseling
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...metal to Albert Law, editor of the Dalhart Texan. Law, in the belief that it might be a meteorite, sent it to the University of New Mexico to have it analyzed by Astronomer Lincoln La Paz, and his research associate, Mineralogist Carl W. Beck. With a vanadium steel chisel and a four-pound jackhammer, La Paz succeeded in breaking off a piece the size of a pea. Beck found that the substance had a density of 18.63 (density of lead: 11.34). A commercial chemist in Albuquerque confirmed their suspicions that the chunk was solid metallic uranium, which does not occur...
Sculptor Cousino tried vainly to explain: "It's my conception of the Virgin, her mouth open in a stifled cry of the world's sufferings. I started off with the usual base, then despite myself, in the grip of a driving force, my hammer hit on my chisel. It was out of control. I was forced to obey orders which were not of my own inspiration. I can't say it's really mine...
...father's workshop as a boy. At 16, he began studying sculpture, earned a four-year government scholarship almost at once. Married, he avoids company, spends long days alone in his cluttered studio off the Via Margutta (Rome's Greenwich Village), chain-smoking, pondering, taking up the chisel only at moments when he feels sure...
...Whitney Museum displayed sculptures, watercolors and drawings by 172 contemporary U.S. artists. As always with selections of such scope, a good bit was bad. But Burr Miller's marble Chrysalis showed how a sensitive chisel can tease stone to life, and Saul Baizerman's Eve proved that it is also possible to hammer life into a sheet of copper. The water-colors ranged from the sweet, wet realism of Californian John Langley Howard's Coast Line to New Yorker Hans Hofmann's wholly abstract and strikingly handsome Composition...
When at the war's end the President died, the son carved a seven-ton monument to his memory. In 1949, sculptor's chisel in hand, he emigrated to freedom...