Word: shank
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...shank one-marrowed with my bone...
...corrosion-resistant sheet steel cheaper than some alloys, devised a plastic coating to protect suspension-bridge cables from the weather. U.S. Steel has just introduced a spiral nail which not only fastens lumber more securely but provides up to 29% more nails per pound than the smooth-shank variety. And Crucible Steel last week announced that it will build the world's first plant, at Midland, Pa., to make stainless steel in a continuous liquid process from chrome ore in a blast furnace to a slab-casting machine...
...needed, says the A.M.A., is a thermometer that will not cause injury. But no U.S. manufacturer has yet produced a safer thermometer at an economic price. A safer design, used in Scandinavia, has a slender sensing tip, similar to the American, but then broadens out to a flat shank, thick enough to prevent too deep a penetration. The best the A.M.A. can suggest is that nurses and mothers be instructed in how to insert a thermometer correctly, and told never to leave a child or a debilitated patient alone with the thermometer in place...
...tell bourbon from Canadian rye, and after the fourth they cannot distinguish bourbon from Scotch. After the fifth, presumably, they couldn't care less. Bishop also adds a note on something that many a hard-pressed host has already discovered: that switching gin and vodka martinis in the shank of any evening is as easy as it is unsporting...
hewn from her illustrious shank, was analogous to acne painted like dimples...