Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...genius begins to glow. One day, while holding some skins about a fire, he notices the smoke rising straight in the air. A great moment in history: "He did not realize that he was making the first chimney." Another great moment: Raven idly chips away with a flint knife on a fallen log, decides to try an experiment...
Once in the patch, the slaughter begins. A sharp blow on the nose with the gaff kills the seal, a few deft strokes of the knife and the pelt is sculped off. All day long the killing goes on; the ice runs red with blood. At night the crewmen trudge back to cramped quarters aboard ship for a meal of seals' flippers, a mug of black tea. Then a night's sleep, fully clothed, a breakfast of "fish and brewis" (boiled hardtack), and off on the ice again. In a good day a sealer can sculp 120 seals...
Chest surgeons would like an anesthetic for electric-knife operations that will put and keep the patient under with no danger of blowing the patient up. Both ether and cyclopropane are inflammable, and the wound-cauterizing electric knife, a useful aid to modern surgery, can act like a flaming match when brought near lungs filled with inflammable...
University of California Medical School doctors this week claimed they had the answer: a mixture of curare and nitrous oxide, potent enough to put the patient under, paralyze his respiratory muscles. In 68 chest operations in which the new anesthetic had been used, surgeons had wielded the stuttering electric knife without an internal explosion...
Last week Sheeler's first exhibition in five years opened in a Manhattan gallery. Sheeler, a knife-thin, steel-grey, bespectacled craftsman, works slowly to achieve his carefully balanced arrangements of reality, so it was not a big show-but each picture had a prim perfection. Most visitors acknowledged Sheeler's peculiar mastery, but were left a little cold...