Word: sliver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bottled specimens of human tissue bearing the imprint of one or another of a thousand diseases, not to mention 6,332,508 slides containing tissue slices or body fluids for the diagnostic microscope. Among the institute's odd relics: a lock of Lincoln's hair and a sliver of bone from his skull; the leg lost by General Dan Sickles at the end of the battle at Gettysburg; parts of the brains of Mussolini and Nazi Boss Robert...
...such. Rhythm has always supplied a basic human need since that greatest of all songsters, Homer. Somewhere along the line, however, a queerly shaped instrument called "saxophone" came into being. By blowing one's breath into the smaller aperture of said instrument, thence through a wood or plastic sliver called a "reed," it is possible to make a most magnificent array of nearly organic sounds. Probably the most frequently imitated sounds are animal grunts, shrill screams of pleasure, and all variety of passionate outcries. Needless to say, a mere finger-tapper has become a man representative of the crudest sensibilities...
...waxing moon silvered the green hillside fields and sand dunes that make up the Gaza strip - the 6-mile by 30-mile sliver of Palestine crowded with 200,000 Arab refugees which Egypt rules under the armistice. Captain Mahmoud Ahmed Sadek, commander of a 35-man garrison guarding the ancient city of Gaza, had put his chair under a tree beside the trenches along the road. At the outpost up the hill toward the Israeli border, guards heard voices calling out in Arabic...
sturdily supported Pinay's 1952 government until he tried to take a sliver off family allowances, for which the party, as Catholic spokesman, feels itself a special champion. Thus, a government falls because of the accumulation of differences -not with its enemies-but with its friends...
...even self-defeating. Examples: CJ U.S. Marshall Plan experts helped the Danes expand their blue-cheese industry, so that Denmark could earn the dollars it needed to buy U.S. goods. But when the Danes started selling their cheese, the U.S. imposed a quota to keep all but a sliver of foreign blue cheese out. CJ The U.S. lays great stress on the 1921 Anti-Dumping Act, which protects domestic markets from the unfair competition of foreign products sold below cost. Yet under the burden of its surpluses,* the U.S. is peddling abroad $1.4 billion worth of food, some...