Word: lacework
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every last tiny nerve in her corpse. As Dr. Weaver freed a length of nerve, he kept it soft and flexible by wrapping it in gauze and cotton wet with alcohol. When "Harriet" became no more than a pair of eyes, a dura mater, a spinal cord and a lacework of branching nerves, Dr. Weaver stiffened her with white paint, pinned her to a board...
...years Negroes in the South have with impunity poured kerosene into their stoves to make wood fires burn brighter. The 22 "bad niggers" were not particularly alarmed when the rivulets on the truck floor took fire from the burning paper. But this was not kerosene but gasoline. A lacework of flames raced across the truck floor. Several men stamped their feet in the burning trickles. Then suddenly the five-gallon can went up in flames. Twenty-two "bad niggers" rushed to the front of the truck, began to holler...