Word: snippet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vague that they raise no suspicion of lead poisoning. For borderline cases, or for children under suspicion because they live in the same building as a known victim, there are several blood and urine tests, and an ingenious method of detecting lead (by spectrophotometry) in a snippet of their hair...
...drapery into 45,000 patches and include one in each copy of a souvenir-record album called Opening Nights at the Metropolitan. Of course, the curtain did shrink some in the cleaning, but there was enough to go around as Soprano Leontyne Price scissored off the first snippet for publicity's sake. Then she hurried back to rehearsals at the new Met, where she will star opening night as Cleopatra in an opera written for her by Composer Samuel Barber...
Calder began rebuilding toys for himself when he was eight. He would embellish them with a snippet of wire here and there, sometimes to give them more motion. From then on, a pair of pliers became his tool to remake the world...
After Hearst's a.m. New York Mirror sank without a burble, most of the columnists swam over to Hearst's p.m. Journal-American. But there was a bit of a problem for Society Snippet Suzy (Mrs. Aileen Mehle). The J-A already had Cholly Knickerbocker, and there are just so many tales one paper can tattle. Solution: Cholly walks the plank, Suzy gets full command of the society poop deck, and this week starts a combined column under the new nom de guerre of Suzy Knickerbocker...
...well-gnawed spare rib. and a blonde lock pinned on a brocade background along with a tattered French postcard (a small leaf has been taped in place for the sake of modesty), a reproduction of Ann Pollard, an anonymous American primitive painting of an old woman, and a snippet of Picasso's wall-eyed female Face. Of these oversized miniatures Boh rod says: "It just takes a small brush and a big mind...