Word: scalpeled
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...table to make the crucial excisions. He invariably operates barehanded. Rubber gloves, he says, destroy the delicate feel of his work. A Sauerbruch operation is a continuous bellow; he shouts at his assistants, shouts for his instruments. Once, irked by a clumsy assistant, he slashed the fellow with his scalpel to teach him a lesson...
...around in the cupboard of memories and might-have-been. That, too, is the pathos of them. But it is a pathos that Chekhov sharply rings with humor and partly punctures with insight. Always compassionate, he is never deceived. The wand he waves to evoke moods suddenly becomes a scalpel that lays motives bare. He sees all that is flabby-and all that is funny-in these people who make mournfulness their métier...
Every President since Theodore Roosevelt has felt an urge to perform drastic surgery on the Government's multiplying bureaus. Each has asked Congress for a scalpel, in the form of a reorganization bill, but most of them got something that looked more like a rubber dagger. Congressmen always shuddered at the idea of a President whacking at patronage with anything that would really...
Once she got into teaching, and then into the deanship, Virginia kept Barnard-on-the-subway a lot like herself: unfeathered, serious, competent. She was conservative by temperament, but in her commonsensical way of facing each new project with a scalpel eye, she made Barnard modern. She is a devotee of the classics, but she abolished compulsory Latin. Barnard under Dean Gildersleeve let the girls smoke and taught them sex hygiene without raising the hubbub that these topics roused in other colleges. Once, when asked what obstacles she had had to overcome in her career, she answered characteristically: "None whatever...
...deepest surgery ever practiced on U.S. taxes-the slicing off of $5.9 billion -was completed without fuss or flowers. For what once would have been considered a miracle of scalpel work, Congress engaged in a minimum of consultations beforehand, a minimum of self-congratulation afterward. The taxpayer, though assured the operation had been a success, felt hardly better...