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Word: riveter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bits of his mother's undershirt and started caressing a picture of his cousin, a war prisoner long unheard from. Nothing happened. Antonio burst out crying, then he remembered something said in the market about metal discs. He ran to a junk pile and picked up an old rivet. With this pressed firmly on his neck he stroked the picture once more. Suddenly, as if on a movie screen, the lost cousin appeared, dressed in a faded uniform and strolling down a grassy slope. "Where are you?" shouted Antonio. The cousin stopped, turned and silently moved his lips. Antonio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Rivet on Tony's Neck | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

Brazil's relaxing dictator, Getulio Vargas, recognized Soviet Russia last week. For years, he had used a souped-up version of the Red Bogey to double-rivet his dictatorship; now, with the San Francisco Conference only three weeks away, Russia was a power which could not be ignored and should no longer be antagonized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Turnabout | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

Last fortnight in Philadelphia, Lieut. Commander Billig showed the International College of Surgeons a startling new technique. He now does the operation bloodlessly, with an air-driven rivet gun with a specially rounded head. The gun is pressed against the skin and used to knead the nerves right through the flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio and Nerves | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

...Vibration from a rivet gun does nothing to the muscles and nerves of a woman's hand. The vibration is imperceptible. "Rivet arm is due simply to prolonged use of the same group of muscles in a tense position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Females in Factories | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

...Like a rivet through the hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Angry Penguins | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

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