Word: mastication
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...Bulbulian takes pride in matching flesh tints, in decorating his noses with tiny pores and wrinkles. Both noses and ears are glued on with a liquid adhesive made of mastic gum dissolved in chloroform or benzene. Like false teeth, false noses and ears must be doffed at night...
...President signed NRA codes for furniture; garages & parking; fireworks; excelsior; asphalt & mastic tile; waste manufacturers...
...Daniel said: Are ye so foolish . . . that without examination or knowledge of the truth, you have condemned a daughter of Israel? . . . Separate these two [elders] and I will examine them. So ... he called one of them and said: . . . Tell under what tree thou sawest them. . . . He said: Under a mastic tree. . . . He commanded that the other should come and said: . . . Under what tree didst thou take them? And he answered: Under a holm tree. . . . With that all the assembly cried out . . . and rose up against the two elders (for Daniel had convicted them of false witness by their own mouth...
...birds, though he has already learned to fly many times faster. Determined to learn their secret, Leonard W. Bonney, wealthy pioneer of the air, grown middle-aged since his first flight with Orville Wright in 1910, caught two seagulls in a steel trap padded with cloth at Mastic, L. I. For three years he studied them, scrutinizing every feather on their bodies...