Word: sliver
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...brim with laughter or mischief like a child's. The nose is strong, the mouth full and sensual, the chin arrogant. The ears are large and seemingly tense with listening; they belong to a man who is a born eavesdropper of human speech, machinery or a dissolving sliver of birdsong. On rainy days his slim figure strides buoyantly un der an ancient black umbrella, held aloft like a balloonman's bouquet of balloons...
...Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports presented William J. Bingham '16, its Chairman and Director of Athletics, with an engraved sliver tray at its final meeting yesterday...
...freak farm accident in Castle-blayney two years ago, Cyril Morrison, nine-year-old son of an Irish farm worker, got himself pinned between a tractor and a stone wall. The accident splintered the boy's jaw and sent a knifelike sliver slicing across the base of his tongue. It cut the tongue off close to the roots...
Inishmurray is a 100-acre sliver of rock off the northwest coast of Ireland's County Sligo. In World War I, a British destroyer mistook its low-lying shape for a German submarine, let fly with a torpedo. The explosion shook the island up a bit but it failed to deflect the inhabitants from the pursuit of customs stemming back to the time of Saint Columba, who is said to have stopped off at Inishmurray on his way to convert Scotland to Christianity...
...After a sliver of glass hit her right eye during the goblet-smashing scene in Der Rosenkavalier at the Metropolitan Opera House, Mezzo-Soprano Risë Stevens carried on to the end of the act. During intermission she had the splinter removed. Then, relying on a boric-acid eye bath, she turned down an unglamorous bandage, sang through the last...