Word: toenailed
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...most astonishing things about the ceiling near at hand is the unfailing precision of its forms, both large and small. Michelangelo has caused each painted figure to exist in full, down to the subtlest wrinkle of a foot sole or the snug arc of a toenail. These refinements, needless to say, are quite invisible from down below. Why did the artist bother? In one of his sonnets, he exclaims, 'My soul can find no stair on which to climb to heaven, unless it be earth's loveliness...
...hung on to prepare and manage six rounds of talks aimed at abolishing or reducing trade barriers for more than 20,000 items from toenail polish to turbines. The last of these talkathons, the four-year Kennedy Round, he believed, crowned his work - and his intention to leave became irreversible...
...more, many a hale male has dreamed of beating the draft by persuading the psychiatrist at the induction center that he was some kind of nut. That, however, is going about it the hard way. Men are rejected if they are hypersensitive to bee stings, have a severe ingrown toenail, or even if they have too many-or too obscene-tattoos...
...Ogden Phipps's four-year-old Buckpasser, Horse of the Year in 1966, winner of eleven straight stakes, and fourth biggest money winner ($1,271,224) in thoroughbred history. Buckpasser was scratched when he was found to have a quarter crack in one hoof similar to a split toenail in a human. The same kind of injury kept Buckpasser out of last year's Kentucky Derby; this time, he is expected to be out of action for at least two months...
Eight in the morning, bells begin to ring. Uprising in a mass, Mass showers, mass finger and toenail clipping. Our eyes sting. Footbaths of disinfectant come to pass...