Word: swab
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...Montgomery's doctors and nurses, medical personnel from two Air Force fields, and housewives recruited by the Parent-Teacher Association, set up 18 inoculation stations in schools. From morning to night, for four days, droves of children were run through an assembly-line routine: pants down, an alcohol swab on the buttock, the jab of a needle, and then a lollipop to shut their mouths. Total shots...
...hierarchy, or even the Student Laundry Association, in eye-blearing competitions that often demand 70 hours a week. The word "heel" perhaps refers to that part of the clothing most evident as the heeler hustles down streets selling ads, rushes through New Haven collecting bills, and bends over to swab floors and dump trash buckets. Or, as one heeler suggested last week, it may derive from a dog's heeling...
...Deep in the Middle East desert last week, a burnoosed Arab swung a Geiger counter over a fat steel pipe, tracing the progress of a radioactive swab inside. Behind the swab pushed a brown tide of oil, bound on a 1,068-mile journey from Arabian-American Oil Co.'s vast Saudi Arabian wells to the Mediterranean port of Sidon, in Lebanon. It was the first oil to pass through the $200 million Trans-Arabian pipeline (known as Tapline), the biggest overseas construction project ever financed by private U.S. capital...
Fire officials wanted to swab the base-boards of the unfinished Graduate Center with a fireproofing chemical. According to Cambridge law, they said, "wood wainscotting" can't be left bare in large buildings...
There was a time when the C.I.O.'s highhanded, Red-tinted National Maritime Union could & would tie up a ship at the drop of a seaman's swab. Last week, when the United States Lines' S.S. America docked in New York with a sizzling labor dispute aboard, company officials prepared for the worst. The union's delegate, a wiry, intense ship's electrician named Walter Avellar, had served an ultimatum: either the company fired Chief Crew Steward W. S. McDonald and reinstated two seamen, or the ship would not sail. Roared grim-jawed, grim-tempered...