Word: chiselling
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...time, he remained appallingly insensitive to the true evils of the Hitler regime. "His self-confidence thickened into arrogance," said English Writer Harold Nicolson, an old friend. "His mind had been sharpened by fame and tragedy until it had become as hard, as metallic and as narrow as a chisel...
...Strong Chisel. At the outset, it seemed that Metzenbaum would repeat his 1970 performance. There were few policy differences between the two Democrats, although Glenn is basically more conservative than Metzenbaum. The only major contrast was between Metzenbaum, the experienced politician, and Glenn, who had never before been elected to office. But Glenn steadily chipped away with one strong chisel-his Boy Scout image. The result was a decisive victory for Glenn, a plurality of 94,000 out of more than 1,000,000 votes cast...
...metaphor that infuriates both liberated women and spirited youth. God holds in his hands a hammer (symbolizing a husband). The husband/hammer bangs a chisel (representing the obedient wife) that "chips away the rough edges" to turn a diamond in the rough (a teenager) into...
...Huskies, led by substitute guard Tom Ryan's 14 points, could only chisel into the Crimson lead after Sanders had a complete quintet of his "gentlemen from the bench...
...Harvard drop-out named Pete Seeger, who had the brains to quit before his heart was dead and soul was cold? When, too, will we see buildings named for brave and rebel women such as Helen Keller in the Radcliffe Quad? Is it not time to rediscover use of chisel upon granite, use of hammer upon stone...