Word: rub
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...CUTTING Cutters first remove unwanted pieces of the stone, then rub two diamonds together to shape a main stone...
...results can be catastrophic. Hospital infections contribute to the deaths of nearly 90,000 patients in the U.S. each year and add about $4.5 billion to medical costs. And yet the solution can be as simple as a bar of medicated soap or a disinfectant alcohol rub. "Improved hand washing can reduce rates of infection as much as a third," says Elaine Larson, an expert on health-care hygiene at the Columbia University School of Nursing. Even wearing latex gloves isn't necessarily a good substitute, since taking them off improperly can lead to recontamination...
...Usher endless hordes of tourists in front of a decrepit old statue and glibly encourage them to rub its urine-encrusted toe for good luck...
...sang through smiles: with expressive eyes, dancing eyebrows, palpitating breast, and alive fingers that would rub together and flicker like a dancer’s digits ornamenting the end of an extended arm suspended in reach. That is to say, Cecilia Bartoli, the internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano, flirted and seduced the audience at Symphony Hall last Friday night. As part of the FleetBoston Celebrity Series, Bartoli appeared with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment—with whom she performs and works regularly—including their most recent collaboration on her new “Salieri Album...
...rulings makes the case’s outcome inevitable: the Cleveland voucher program affirms that taxpayers’ money can pay for religiously-affiliated schools and the Washington decision supports public funding for explicitly religious courses of study. Even if the religious doctrines espoused by parochial schools rub off on the children who use the expanded voucher program, proponents argue that the Supreme Court hasn’t shrunk from funding religious study before. And three years from now, the once rock-solid division between Church and State comes tumbling down...