Word: sawdusted
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...offer wildly different explanations. One professor predicts that teachers would have to leave out all of the new and exciting but irrelevant developments in their field. "If you just left in the things that every doctor should know," he worries, "it would be unpalatable. It would be like eating sawdust." Another professor, however, is sure that lecturers would drop the essential in favor of the new and exciting. "If we didn't attract students
After the first hearing, the accused was shut up in a pestilential prison, fed on sawdust and water, and confined in stocks or manacles for as much as two or three years before the bishop bothered to bring him to trial. Usually the prisoner was beaten by his jailers; often he was put to the rack. A nasty bishop named Boner once held a prisoner's hand over a candle flame "till the sin ews burst, and the water did spurt into the dean's face." Accused heretics not infrequently died of mistreatment before they could be executed...
...Greensboro, N.C., Roy got saddled with a spirited nag that objected to Western spurs. Or perhaps it was the way Roy sat the English saddle. The stallion reared and a crowd of 6,000 gasped as the King, like any dude, tumbled off, landing on his rump in the sawdust...
...delegates met in the university's Stock Pavilion, a cavernous arena with grey grandstands and an inch of coarse sawdust on the floor. It is usually used for livestock exhibitions, though Wisconsin's old Progressive Party used to convene there occasionally...
Circus World. Still doggedly reproducing the collected epics of Cecil B. DeMille, Producer Samuel Bronston has launched a three-ring Circus. Though likable enough, this least pretentious of Bronston spectaculars cannot compare with The Greatest Show on Earth. It is just a minor romantic tearjerker, a Stella Dallas with sawdust...