Word: fastens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many times in the closure of a cut on the face, very coarse, deep sutures [stitches] including the skin and deeper tissues have been placed with a heavy needle. These later leave broad scars." (The proper method is to stitch the lower layer of a wound, then fasten the skin edges together with a fine thread...
...guard the home front with the trusted SS had become something more than a foresighted precaution. As the fifth winter of war began to fasten down on Europe, Germany was in chronic retreat. The Allies had invaded Europe and Mussolini had fallen. Close to four million Germans had been lost...
Then, like a bean patch under a hot sun, opposition sprouted up & down the country. Feeling blindly for something to fasten to, it clutched and climbed on the solid Chicago organization of General Wood. With sincere isolationists, frightened business and political opportunists, many a political weed twined up: Roosevelt-haters, Bundists, Fascists, Coughlinites. America First chapters sprang up overnight, started their own membership drives. Nickels, dimes, dollars rolled in. From Chicago, it looked breathtaking. The America Firsters in Chicago did not yet realize that their movement had grown out of hand...
Talon's machines, which stamp zipper teeth out of metal tape and fasten them in a row on fabric, would be useless for anything else. Its workers (like those of other industries) would have to be retrained before they could work on defense orders. But its efficient tool shop (which has developed and made the company's own precision machinery) could go to town on orders for small items such as cartridge cases, instrument parts, bomb & shell fuses. Already the company had filled some defense orders for gauges (as well as for fasteners on Army uniforms and sleeping...
...duplicating its own confusion in the transferred form of the spectator's emotion." Products of the run of generally read novelists-Fabricius, Feuchtwanger, Cronin, Stribling, Lewis-are briefly dismissed, not for lack of interest or use, but "because they show little material for literary criticism to fasten...