Word: rubbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...majors, for all their fame as fresh-air lovers, spend a terrifying amount of time in dank laboratories. Here they rub pebbles on porcelain streak plates, poor at crystals through dime-sized hand lenses, and drip hydrochloric acid on unsuspecting limestones...
...best way to get rid of acne scars, Plastic Surgeon William G. McEvitt of Detroit announced last week, is to rub them down with coarse sandpaper. Acne's disfigurement, Dr. McEvitt reported to the Journal of the American Medical Association, is bad enough for men, but tragic for women. It results simply from "lights and shadows playing on an uneven surface." Acids and dry ice have been used to level the skin; so have mechanical devices such as scalpel blades, razor blades, needles grouped like a currycomb, rough stones, disks and brushes...
McCarthy's zest for chance, life, personal combat and the power of wealth seems undiminished. He still likes to rub his hands in thick, crude oil and mutter...
...What is a face?" Williams wrote. "What has it always been, even to the remotest savagery? A battleground. Slash it with sharp instruments, rub ashes into the wound to make a keloid; daub it with clays, paint it with berry juices. This thing that terrifies us, this face upon which we lay so much stress is something they have always wanted to deform, by hair, by shaving, by every possible means. Why? To remove it from the possibility of death by making of it a work...
June. In Miami, Fred H. Kautzmann charged that the James Drug Shop had mixed two prescription labels, causing him for the past year to rub stomach medicine on his scalp and drink his hair tonic...