Word: fingernail
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...they loomed secret and dim On the wall of the drunk-tank, Scraped there by a raw fingernail In the trickling crusts of gray mold...
...within tradition Mirko is very alive and open to new ways and ideas. When he came here from Italy he discovered styrofoam. He sketches in it--styrofoam is well-suited to sketching because it is easy to cut, join, and texture with just a fingernail or scrap of wood. And he modified the lost-wax casting technique to cast directly from styrofoam, and even egg cartons, to bronze. (In lost-wax casting, one puts a refracting material like plaster around a wax shape one wants to reproduce, melts out the wax once the plaster hardens and then pours in molten...
Buckley père revered, above all, the English language. "Father was always a language purist," says Buckley. "Bad grammar was for him like dirt under the fingernail." Buckley developed his father's respect for words, and used them freely, furiously and all too literally. While attending Millbrook School in New York, he appeared uninvited at a faculty meeting and proceeded to complain about his teachers' politics-too liberal, of course. Even his father felt constrained to admonish him: "I like very much your attitude of having strong convictions, but you will have to learn to be more...
...Like Being Reborn." Last month Betty Vanella celebrated her 37th birthday at home in San Jose, Calif. She was a robust 104 Ibs. and announced that she was going to take up golf and swimming. Her lips and fingernail beds were a healthy pink, thanks to a full supply of oxygenated blood. "It's like being reborn," she said...
Hoping to cash in on the riches, 47 pianists from 16 nations entered this year's Cliburn competition. To begin with, each performer was required to play ten selections, ranging from the baroque to the severely modern. It was all severely worrisome. Rumania's fidgety, fingernail-chewing Radu Lupu, 20, one of the six finalists, suffered from a case of "the dry heaves," had to be rescued from the men's room before each performance. On the day of the finals, he arose from a practice session and in his excitement cracked his head on a ledge...