Word: piercer
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...Wednesday afternoon, two women in overalls walk into a little Central Square shop and ask for Joe, the on-premises body-piercer. Another woman, who appears to be one of Joe's regular customers, purchases a pair of fishnet stockings. A portly gentleman in a parka and workboots treats himself to a smashing new set of riding crops, which the cashier carefully wraps in black tissue paper...
...sell more earrings. Often, the jeweler does not charge for the piercing, but insists that the girl buy a pair of twenty-dollar earrings before she leaves. After the potential piercee picks out her earrings, she sits on a stool with her back against the wall, while the piercer jabs a thick needle through the lobe into the cork he is holding behind it. The pain is minimal, and the results are often the best of the three schools, because the piercer is so experienced...
Adams' crust piercer, which he patented and assigned to the AEC, is a high-temperature nuclear reactor designed to melt its way into rock. The reactor is 2 ft. to 3 ft. in diameter, and its active material (uranium oxide) is enclosed in a cylinder of beryllium oxide, which serves as a heat insulator. The lower point, mostly tungsten, is heavy, while the upper point, mostly beryllium, is light...
...sheep ranch in New Zealand's Eglinton Valley gave Mrs. Ruth Chartres a wistful eye for the peaks that towered into the clear air high above her home. She set her heart on mastering Mount Cook, New Zealand's tallest (12,349 ft.). Called Aorangi (Cloud Piercer) by the Maoris, Cook is a tough enough test for a professional mountaineer. Sir Edmund Hillary, co-conqueror of Everest, practiced there; many lost their lives in the attempt...
...taking no chances of missing the next turn of fashion, but they are not worried that earrings will ever go out of style. Reason: 30% of Britain's earring wearers now have pierced ears, v. only 5% two years ago. At that time, Cyril Wilkinson, an ear piercer, appeared on BBC's most popular television program, What's My Line? He told of piercing the ears of the Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth, the Duchesses of Kent and Gloucester. Wilkinson is now piercing ten times as many ears as he did two years ago, which delights the jewelers...