Word: riveter
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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...
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...
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...
...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...
...Like a rivet through the hand...