Word: clothespins
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...legislative process is a century-old, unsettled question. But there is no doubt that the practice is more widespread than ever. In fact, almost every U.S. citizen is in some way represented or affected by a lobby. The National Association of Letter Carriers is working for higher wages; the Clothespin Manufacturers of America is trying to limit imports of foreign clothespins; the Sioux Indian Tribal Council is demanding compensation for lost agricultural and game land; the American Farm Bureau Federation is pressing the Senate Agriculture Committee to broaden Agriculture Secretary Benson's soil-bank plan...
...Portable Sickroom. To avoid Hamyopia, Chekhov traveled widely. But the Russian hinterland rarely sent Chekhov into those flights of mystic brotherhood common to 19th century Russian intellectuals. He approached it with a clothespin ever ready to clamp to his nose, as when he described a provincial sausage: "The odor was as if you had entered a stable at the moment the coachman was unwinding his leg puttees; when you started chewing the stuff you experienced a sensation like sinking your teeth into a tar-smeared dog's tail." Yet he spent a heroic overworked year heading off a cholera...
...discovered several types of chemicals that will hasten reactions in experiments. He has also demonstrated that a simple device can be successfully substituted for more expensive equipment. For example, a clothespin can be substituted for a $28 monometer, it can be used as an ordinary clamp, and can also take the place of a pressure gauge. By replacing ethyl alcohol with a less expensive chemical that has a higher boiling point, Fieser has found a way to reduce one reaction from 24 hours to five minutes...
Short Order. In Santa Monica, Calif., Mrs. Deloris D. Stack reported that someone had stolen three pairs of silk panties from her clothesline, left a $1 bill attached with a clothespin...
...isolated Bridges ranch house on the morning of the year's first snowstorm, the reader is plunged into an atmosphere of family hatreds and tensions that recalls Playwright Eugene O'Neill at his grimmest. Whisky-soaked father Bridges hates his domineering, straitlaced, Bible-reading wife ("A clothespin in bed . . . Gotta keep drinkin' just to forget the 'normous wooden clothes-pin"). Mother Bridges, on her side, despises Bridges for his worthlessness, his decayed delusions of get-rich-quick grandeur...