Word: outerness
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...this week the Allies had smashed deep into the Low Countries and U.S. forces probed at the outer hedgehogs of the Siegfried Line. This week battles would boil on German soil...
Fielding sensation of the summer base. The initial sacker handled 104 chances, making but one error, for a .990 fielding average. Capaccio and Art Conlon, the left fielder, both played errorless ball in the outer pastures...
Under the stress of tiring work or a shortage of oxygen, the cortex (outer layer) of the kidneys' adrenal glands secretes unusual amounts of certain hormones known as 17-ketosteroids (containing one oxygen and 17 carbon atoms). They are discharged in the urine. The investigators discovered that the output of ketosteroids (and of urine) rose in direct proportion to fatigue and loss of efficiency. There was wide variation among individuals; those with the greatest stamina showed the smallest secretion of ketosteroids...
...service canteen with her fellow troupers and husband, Conductor Andre Kostelanetz, who reported that slie had trouble figuring out the exchange of Egyptian piasters and U.S. dollars until she asked a bystander to help her. Wrote Kostelanetz: "He gladly did, and we learned afterwards that our 'financial straightener-outer' was . . . Farouk, King of Egypt...
...Boston Police Force was needed to retrieve Harold Holbrook's hat from a keepsake-collecting girl in outer Boston. It seems she had passed it on to a sailor friend who had consequently broken off relations. With a frantic appeal to justice and some maneuvering, the police extracted the hat and the incident was kept out of the papers...