Word: clawful
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...Scales. Wishing neither to underestimate the enemy nor to misunderstand him, newspapers printed only the truth they could be sure of about him. and were driven to guessing the dimensions of the bear by the length of his claw, and his health by the color of his coat. Yet putting together what is known indicates that the new Russian regime may keep its peoples from rising, but cannot satisfy their needs (see below); and the new China is having such internal upheaval that its leaders are hard put to combat...
...prisoner of his surroundings, starving in desert lands or drowned by torrential floods. He can change much of the unproductive land to suit his needs- Part of this change is due to the new machinery: the clanking bulldozers that knock down forests, the great draglines that claw house-sized holes at a single scoop, the cranes, jumbos, earth movers, power shovels, trenchers and dozens of other mechanical giants that lay pipelines, tunnel through mountains, and pour concrete for dams with the ease of a man putting down a sidewalk. But the biggest part of the change is the revolution...
...Claude Mulhammer, who thinks he has a male heir, but finds instead that his son has been born of the Virgin Mary, is quite clearly related to the figure of Joseph in the Christ story. There is, once again, the matter of the name. Claude Mulhammer: claw hammer. This basic tool of the carpenter suggests, of course, Joseph's trade, as well as Sir Claude's own dream of the craftsman's life. But Sir Claude is not a craftsman, he is a City financier, a fact which is reflected in the other meaning of claw hammer--a swallowtail dress...
...Some are even using TV to keep an eye on remote-control processes. The Army is building a completely automatic TNT factory in Joliet, 111., while work on an atomic engine for the AEC includes such contraptions as General Electric's "O-Man," a 15-ton remote-controlled claw to handle radioactive material. (It can screw a nut on a bolt, and can even be made to pick up an egg.) Oil refineries, which used to crack oil by laborious batch methods, now do it in one steady, automatic flow; a few skilled workers sit at a master-control...
...Overseas royalty began trickling in. Among the first: Paramount Chief Mwanawina II of Barotseland, representing all tribal chiefs of Northern Rhodesia. Outfitted with a replica of the claw-hammered coat and gold-striped trousers worn by his father for the coronation of Edward VII, the chief made the first 300 miles of the trip to London by barge, the rest by Constellation. Also arriving: Queen Salote Tupou of the Pacific Island protectorate of Tonga, one of the three reigning queens in the world (the others: Britain's Elizabeth, the Netherlands' Juliana), and definitely the largest...