Word: ox
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...surgeon, there remains a major repair job. For structural support and to diminish the size of the opening, he builds a latticework of sutures across the win dow, covering them with strong connective tissue (fascia) from an ox. After much meticulous suturing, the wound has a taut look before the skin is closed...
...book would be of value for its intimate picture of the life of American country people at the turn of the 19th century. Young boys, like the one whose diary he follows, would get up on winter mornings, run across the road to the barn, push the cow or ox aside, then stand and dress in the warm area where the animal had been sleeping. If a house had more than ten panes of glass, the owner paid a glass tax-so most houses had ten and no more. Window glass, in fact, was so valuable that a family often...
...books-with titles like Storm, Fire, or U.S. 40-generally describe some vast entity of nature or engineering and its ef fect upon scores of tiny lives. His new book might have been called Rut. Its chapters are headed "1841," "1842" and "1843" and so on, as year by ox-drawn year he records the development of the overland route to California. Back and forth the reader travels, five times in the first 100 pages alone, until a pair of transcontinental grooves has been worn into the top of the brain...
...were popular. They were not called prairie schooners. When deep rivers were encountered, the bottom of the boxes could be covered with canvas or hides; off came the wheels and the vehicle became a boat. On land, they were pulled by oxen or mules, mainly oxen, because an ox cost only $25, a mule $75. No horses. Too weak...
...myself." He pumped air to Marlon Brando in Viva Zapata! and to Kirk Douglas in Lust for Life, each time winning an Oscar as the year's best supporting actor. He created sworls of off-center violence in dozens of other good movies, from 1943's The Ox-Bow Incident to 1961's The Guns of Navarone. But despite his Oscars and his gold-lettered credits (including La Strada), few people -least of all Anthony Quinn-thought of him as a so-called actor of stature until suddenly there he was up on a Broadway stage...