Word: loin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deftly, without the aid of a theodolite, an OPA demonstrator shows wholesale butchers how to trim a full loin from a beef. Geometrically precise, anatomically specific was OPA's Maximum Price Regulation No. 169: "After the severance of the round from the hindquarter, the flank shall be severed from the full loin by a cut starting at the heavy end of the full loin at the ventral point of severance of the round from the hindquarter and continuing in a straight line to a fixed point on the inside of the 13th rib determined by measuring off ten inches...
...favorite indoor sports in those days were operating for hernia, breaking legs and thighs for bow legs, knock-knees, tying off hemorrhoids, opening psoas [loin] abscesses, subcutaneously operating for varicose veins, scarifying and chiseling osteomyelitis, traumatic amputations, trephinings [skull operations] for injuries, lifting breasts off for carcinoma and putting up fractures...
...living the Riches write articles, stories, guide city "sports," haul anything from logs and boats to litters of pigs and Camp Fire Girls. In December they stock up for winter from their nearest A. & P.-40 miles away. Pork loin and whole deer swing frozen from ceiling hooks in the sheds...
...prose as informal as his loin cloth, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi last week asked the U.S. people to concern themselves with Indian independence. Writing to the India League of America, he said...
...then he girded up his other loin...