Word: chiselling
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...also a scale drawing to show the apprentice stonecutter what the finished stone should look like. "To be a good mason you must have an eye for surfaces," says Bambridge. "You must visualize the finished job before you start, so when you drop down into the stone with your chisel, you know where you are headed. Keep your elbow tucked tightly to your side. Don't tap the stone like a chicken. Be authoritative. Strike the chisel forcefully with regular beat. I was careful to pick people who are not discouraged by cold hands and feet...
Berkeley Law Professor Jesse Choper suspects that the Justices took the case because they wanted to discourage the increasing encroachments on their church-state doctrine. "They're not going to let people chisel away at the perimeters," says Choper...
...celebrated head of Hermes by Praxiteles. Parks also primed himself for the project by studying scores of books and video tapes of the singer and absorbing untold decibels of Hound Dog and Jailhouse Rock. Miniatures of the statue will be marketed in the future; meanwhile Parks is turning his chisel to another paean to Presley: a drooling hound dog fountain, with no known Greek antecedents...
...like automobiles in Detroit [July 21], by proclaiming that profit is not a dirty word. Let's also decree that employees give a day's work for a day's wage and establish that industry must only be reasonably safe and reasonably nonpolluting. Then we can chisel in stone: "The Government cannot and will not cure ailing industry...
...this book. Schwartz is too good a writer to build characters out of trendy rhetoric and aggressive self-pity. Her aim is to show how two people in love can reveal each other's nature over a long period of time. They were, writes the author, "hammer and chisel to each other...