Word: swab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possibilities of color." To do this, he laid a 6-ft. square of canvas on the floor and walked around it until he lost track of its top and bottom. He decided that the "most neutral" place to start from was its center, and proceeded to pour, stain and swab paint in concentric circles outward. Noland played with half a dozen colors in such target paintings, devising hundreds of dashing combinations. He moved on to chevrons, then to diamond-shaped canvases. Since 1967, he has been painting majestically flowing, horizontally striped rectangles that enable him to orchestrate as many...
...Normally, Segal casts his models in sections, but for Ethel he wanted to try just two casts, the first from the neck down. "Take a natural position," Segal urged. Ethel plunked herself down on a secondhand green velvet Victorian couch, one leg tucked under the other. Segal proceeded to swab down her arms, dress, legs and boots with petroleum jelly. Then, carefully dipping squares of cheesecloth in plaster, he began molding them to her body...
...trick to gain votes for his fourth-term reelection. Drury quotes a dissident Senator: "Roosevelt says we're letting the soldiers down. Why, God damn him. The rest of us have boys who go into the Army and Navy as privates and ordinary seamen and dig latrines and swab decks, and his scamps go in as lieutenant colonels and majors and spend their time off getting medals in Hollywood ... I took my oath to defend the Constitution of the United States and that's what I'm going to do. And then we're 'letting...
...cotton swab, for example, can be rubbed over a suspect's hand, irradiated, and its gamma rays studied to determine whether the man has fired a gun. Infinitesimal traces of gunpowder components left on the hand by explosion gases show up unmistakably under neutron analysis...
...spoon polishing a nervous ritual, and almost everywhere a dirty café is called a "greasy spoon." But an investigation of restaurant hygiene in Connecticut has shown that, of all dinnerware, the spoon is most to be trusted; it is the bar glass that is furthest from grace. In swab tests conducted in nearly 1,000 restaurants, investigators found high bacteria counts on bar glasses "almost commonplace." A count of 100 bacteria per utensil is thought to be a safe level; bar glasses regularly approached counts of 3,000. And spoons were almost uniformly clean...