Word: rimmed
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...doubtless deserves better from fate than he has received. He is completely anonymous. His job usually is monotonous. His deft touches with a pencil may raise a story out of the ordinary, but it is the handsome, much-publicized reporter who gets the credit. The copyreader sits on the rim of the horseshoe desk, does his stint, and then goes home...
GRAND CANYON (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Naturalist Joseph Wood Krutch is guide for a mule trip from the rim to the bottom of the canyon and a boat ride down the Colorado River rapids. Color...
...little patch of earth in the courtyard, mixes in some coal dust and water and then spreads out the resulting paste and cuts it into squares with his hoe. The squares are then tumbled around in a big basket, until the corners are knocked off by the rim of the basket. These coal balls burn very slowly, and of course represent a great saving in coal, since half is just mud to hold the heat...
...Sticky & Warm. The trap of just about all such flowers is a hollow tunnel formed by the flower's blossom that botanists call the caldron. Some varieties of trap flowers are equipped along their rims with countless tiny hairs, which appear to an approaching insect to be other fluttering insects. Once it lands on the camouflaged rim, the decoyed bug is helpless, the victim of a slippery substance that can neutralize the suction cups on a fly's feet. No matter how it struggles, the bug slides into the caldron...
...office at 8 a.m. A day jammed with work: writing editorials, reading books for recommendation by the Christian Herald's book club, meeting with the boards of charities that operate a house for Manhattan's derelicts and five orphanages on the rim of Asia. And that night, a birthday get-together with friends to note that he, the Rev. Daniel Poling, editor of the Christian Herald, is 80 years...