Word: knead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bulb root, shaped like an onion], which, after having been boiled down, is ... cut into the thinnest possible pieces. Afterwards it is mixed with one-fifth of sesame and one-fifteenth of opium poppy. When all of these have been pounded together in a mortar to a fine mass, knead it with honey and divide it into pieces as big as the largest olives. If one of these morsels is consumed around the second hour [about 8 a.m.] and another around the tenth hour [4 p.m.], no serious suffering will result from want of food...
Last fortnight in Philadelphia, Lieut. Commander Billig showed the International College of Surgeons a startling new technique. He now does the operation bloodlessly, with an air-driven rivet gun with a specially rounded head. The gun is pressed against the skin and used to knead the nerves right through the flesh...
...Common Man. "America's No. 1 Curmudgeon, or Sour Puss" was born (1874) in Pennsylvania, the second of seven children. "I was raised to dust and sweep and wash dishes and knead dough and baste the beef and turn (and burn) the toast and flip flapjacks. ... I was pinch-hit nursemaid, wood chopper, fire builder and tender, chicken executioner-more useful than ornamental...