Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That it many rub the rust from your steel...
...uses a heavy blue ink that has many of the same properties as rub ber cement (refills are available in black and red). About 100 times thicker than honey, it is contained in a cartridge in the pen's barrel, which is pressured with a charge of nitrogen gas; the gas forces the ink onto the pen's ballpoint when it is pressed against a surface. In effect, an antigravity pen, it can be used in any position. The writing can be rubbed out with an ordinary eraser up to several days later; thereafter the ink fully hardens...
...frostbite victim "should not use dry heat like a stove or a heating pad and should keep the extremity free-floating in the water and not rub it," she added...
...19th century novelist scarred by neglect, wrote in the hesitant manner of one who, "anxious to avoid appearing gauche or conspicuous, may sometimes be caught glancing furtively round to make sure that he is about to use the right knife and fork." Edward FitzGerald, the reclusive translator of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, waved away a dubious bowl of pudding at his wedding breakfast with the exclamation, "Ugh! Congealed bridesmaid!" Ireland is found "so melancholy, so full of the ghosts of feuds and famines, the clouds fly low, the trees sag under the incessant...
...Herd's next outing is Friday against Dartmouth, way up in New Hampshire, and the team is seeking revenge. "We want to beat them -- badly," said Fitzsimmons. "They have embarassed us for the last three years, and they like to rub our noses in it," he added...