Word: clamp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steel, which controls 40% of total U.S. capacity, grumbled about foreign competition in home markets. President Tom Mercer Girdler of Republic flayed the Wagner Labor Disputes Bill as "the outstanding legislative monkey-wrench which threatens to jam the wheels of recovery. . . . The one & only purpose behind it is to clamp the yoke of the closed shop upon free American citizens...
...grand mal, the epileptic uttering a loud shout and dropping like a log to the ground, face pale, eyes rolling, hands clenched, legs spread stiffly. After a few seconds, the epileptic's face goes dusky. He begins to jerk his arms, legs and body, roll his head, clamp his jaws, drool foam. Such an attack may last two or three minutes, after which the epileptic grows limp, breathes with a heavy rasp, drops into deep unconsciousness...
...arterial clamp was released suddenly. The blood spurted only six inches vertically and only 18 inches laterally. That is the maximum spurt with the flesh held clear. But in a normal cut where the edges of the wound do not gape, blood from the back of the head would well rather than spurt. This proves that a severed occipital artery cannot throw blood around a bathroom as the Lamson defense contends...
When Nurse Keislich showed eagerness to go on with the details, the presiding Justice reproved her. Said he: "My dear Madam, you have teeth in your mouth to clamp down on your tongue...
...week a handful of potent radiomen began examining them with two questions in mind: 1) Since most radio singers preserve the illusion of being unmarried, did these lyrics contain too strong a note of physical abandon? 2) If so, what was to prevent some outside organization from attempting to clamp a boycott on radio as the Legion of Decency has tried to do on cinema...