Word: machinistic
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...make a living, even when it is supplemented by income from odd jobs like the technical-adviser gig Chuck landed for the 1990 film Arachnophobia. So for most of the past decade, Chuck handed scaled-back day-to-day operations of Spider Pharm to Anita--a former machinist from Czechoslovakia who has become as smitten as her husband with spiders--while he worked for American Cyanamid, helping the company investigate spider venom for possible use in new insecticides...
...rhetoric (bombast that would go gossamer, radiant with the genius of his ardor, his generosity), he became endlessly specific about each trade, and put in motion, Homerically, each deckhand, stevedore, scholar, prostitute, drunkard, slave, "Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff," policeman, suicide, trapper, blacksmith, ploughboy, carpenter, contralto, spinning-girl, machinist, squaw, paving-man, flatboatman, fare-collector... on and on, the vast catalog of individualities making...
Those opportunities came quickly, when Gay and her husband found work. She became a nurse at Somerville's Heritage Hospital and he a machinist at a Cambridge company...
...Dell, a machinist with an ugly rap sheet, was arrested and charged with rape and capital murder. He had been seen at the County Line the evening Schartner was killed, though not with her. Later he'd walked into a convenience store with blood on his face, hands and clothes--the result, he said, of a fight at another bar. There were no witnesses to the killing. But circumstantial evidence--including tire tracks consistent with those from O'Dell's car and tests of the blood on his clothing--seemed to link him to the crime...
...should hope that in the undergraduate years you should have a chance to goof off, in an academic sense," says Peter B. Machinist '66, head tutor for the Near Eastern Languages and Literatures Department. "You know, life is too short. Let's make as much...