Word: malletted
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...Griswold's treatment, called "double pin skeletal fixation," is painless, but it looks bad. First a patient's leg is anesthetized. Then two long steel pins, one-eighth of an inch thick, are hammered through the leg, above and below the fracture. A small steel mallet is used, and the pins are driven directly through flesh & bone, protruding about an inch on either side...
...feet and stopped. Tim Holt, normally a two-goal player, hit nothing all afternoon. Charles Farrell raced around on Mazeppa-maned ponies. Nobody scored until the fifth period. The most frequent sounds from the grandstand were groans. Then Big Boy Williams got mad because Walter Wanger kept hooking his mallet. Aidan Roark, who hadn't played all winter, got tired of the monotony. The two dueled for the ball. In the melee, Charles Farrell romped by, whanged the ball between the posts for a goal. Next the producers scored, scored a second time when Roark with a tremendous clout...
...Spanish-American War, drifted into commercial art via teaching. Industrial design is still one of his side lines, but many a museum is proud to own his sculpture. He uses no model, chalks out his figure on a chunk of wood. Then he takes a homemade hickory mallet, pounds his carving chisel along the lines he wants to make. He never cuts too deeply-"possibly because I was born with a puritanical conscience...
Leave Her to Heaven tells of a middle-aged married woman who has an affair with her young chauffeur. An insanely jealous youth, he bashes in the husband's skull with a mallet. The wife, to save her lover, confesses to the crime; the lover confesses also. He is convicted and sentenced to be hanged; she is acquitted and kills herself...
...felt on entering a warm bath." Less battle-hardened sitters found it as painful as primitive dentistry. "I was taken in by Browere," wrote Jefferson to Madison. "He suffered the plaster to get so dry that separation became difficult & even dangerous. He was obliged to use freely the mallet & chisel to break it into pieces and get off a piece at a time. These thumps of the mallet would have been sensible almost to a loggerhead...