Word: fingernail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...junior high school teacher in the Philadelphia school system for the past three years, I have been assaulted four times-three times by parents or older siblings. I have suffered bruised ribs, fingernail lacerations and a mild concussion...
...treat them. It did not mention that these sorts of '"miracles" have been rationally explained. Dr. William Nolen, a Minnesota surgeon, underwent a similar operation himself while researching his 1975 book Healing and reported that the "psychic" incisions were actually made with bits of mica concealed under a fingernail. The excised "tumor" appeared to Nolen to be chicken tissue and had been concealed in the surgeon's fist...
With the pain of a fingernail being pulled...
...limitations." His job, he observed on another occasion, was "to walk down the middle of the street and shoot windows out on both sides." He seldom missed, but the affection and the accolades that came his way never turned his head. He belonged, he once said, to "the dirty-fingernail set as opposed to the folk heroes of TV. I'm a working stiff, a shoe-leather...
...ordinary white people either glued to the walls in sullen observation or flailing rhythmically in intoxicated syncopation. What they had left for our brooms at four a.m., besides the beer cans and cigarettes, we did not stoop to inquire: some hair, a shred or two of clothing, bits of fingernail, and even blood perhaps...