Word: stooling
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...that pocket picking had gone on at one of the street meetings; Dr. Carlile rejoiced that thieves were attending.) To the day of his death he eschewed "luxuries such as slippers and cushions," never sat on a couch if he could avoid it, always worked on a high, uncomfortable stool, as he had a great dread of feeling comfortable...
Simple in form, the procedure merely requires the subject to step up and down from a small stool with a lead-weighted haversack on his back. From pulse readings immediately after the exertion and at intervals during the next five minutes, a score can be computed which classifies the subject as poor, average, good, or superior...
...talking to his seconds, and he didn't know what struck him. The challenger had hit him over the head with a water bottle. As he got up, dazed, and swung around, the challenger with all his might hit him squarely in the midriff with a heavy wooden stool. Staggered and hurt, the champion, instead of carrying the fight to his opponent, as he had planned, found the fight under way before he was ready, found himself being pushed around the ring...
...East Prussia, and the first thing you knew you had a budget of $150,000 a year and lots of women and a big car. But I must say you paid off. It was you, wasn't it, who killed Gregor Strasser? And you who did the stool-pigeoning in the blood purge that sent Roehm and those other friends of Hitler down here...
Faint lines of strain appear nowadays in Nelson's normally chubby face. He lives alone in a small, furnished apartment. The big boss of U.S. industry goes to bed late, gets up around 7 a.m., breakfasts on a stool at the Broadmoor luncheonette, drives himself to work. In a day he sees from 20 to 30 callers, spends most of his time on the telephone. Once a week he lunches at the Raleigh Hotel with Leon Henderson and Milo Perkins, who runs the Economic Warfare Board. On those days, most of the power that drives the U.S. war effort...