Word: malleting
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...slave Januario. To shut out the world's curious, derisive stare, he rigged a tent around him as he worked. Once the governor of Minas Gerais dared stick his head inside the tent and O Aleijadinho (The Little Cripple, as his townsmen called him) seized his mallet and chisel and showered His Excellency with stone chips...
...prophets. In them he found a wrath. compassion and inspiration that matched his own. He sculpted their squat figures in bizarre oriental costumes, twisted and tormented in soapstone (which is soft when quarried, grows hard with age). Before the last one was finished, in 1805, Aleijadinho was working with mallet and chisel strapped to the stumps of his crippled hands. He lived on miserably until 1814. When he died, his achievement marked the high point in exuberant Brazilian rococo...
...Glasgow's Clydeside shipyards last week, Queen Elizabeth II swung a wooden mallet bearing the carved likeness of a Canadian beaver. The mallet tapped a knife, which cut a cord, letting the traditional bottle of champagne swing against the white hull of a new ship. Then the duly christened Empress of Britain, a 24,000-ton passenger liner built for Canadian Pacific Steamship Ltd., went slowly down the ways into the water...
...steel that British security forces are painfully tightening around them. Sixty terrorists poured 500 rounds of Sten-gun and rifle fire into one isolated farmstead, but a brave settler and his wife drove them off with a single rifle. Others attacked the home of 93-year-old Margaret Mallet, Kenya's oldest European woman, but were driven off by loyal Africans...
...repelled and nauseated ... by such horrors as: The Great Beast, by J. Symonds; The Illusionist, F. Mallet; The Skin, C. Malaparte. Please, please let the mud remain where it belongs. Don't even mention them in your fine periodical...