Word: workmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Dr. Hamilton started out, the A.M.A. had never held a meeting on industrial medicine, and technical papers on it by U.S. doctors were rare (though European work on it filled volumes). There were safeguards of sorts against physical accidents, but for a workman who spent years absorbing a slow but deadly poison, there was little thought. Dr. Hamilton had heard of men choked by carbon monoxide in the steel mills, of men palsied by white lead poisoning, of others disabled by arsenic and cyanides, of men with the "bends." To Alice Hamilton's socialist conscience, all this...
Full Speed Ahead. On Truk. in the Caroline Islands, War Surplus Salvager Oliver C. Stine ordered a native workman to chop apart an awkwardly shaped, 1,000-lb. chunk of rusted scrap, took over the acetylene torch himself when the workman failed to make satisfactory progress, got positive results whenthe object's outer casing began smoking and split open, hurriedly stopped salvaging when he peered inside, recognized a Japanese torpedo warhead...
...covering his face, neck drawn in. The minutely defined muscles of legs, arms and chest were bulging in their final death spasm. Theorized Archaeologist Maiuri: "Judging from the body's musculature and from the fact that the man was fleeing alone, I would say that he was a workman or a servant. He waited under some shaky roof or vault, hoping that the storm of lapilli, pumice and ash would pass over. Then, in the midst of the blinding storm and blackening cinders, he attempted flight and sank deep into the growing piles of lapilli. He fought...
...paid for their sins with shaven skulls and imprisonment, while their lovers were broken on the wheel, flayed alive, castrated and decapitated. His intriguing daughter Isabella was unhappily married to Edward II of England, a king who would rather drape his arm with "suspect familiarity" around a young workman than em brace his queen. Courtiers, prelates, Lom bard bankers and the rising burghers scrabbled greedily for power...
...press, usually confined to turgid polemics, devoted column after column to full and sensational reports by 80 reporters covering the trial ("It is refreshing to read again about ordinary human frailties," said one Pole). Some spectators paid as much as 2,000 zlotys (three months' pay for a workman) for a black-market ticket to get into the packed courtroom. Mazurkiewicz, the center of all the attention, is a 48-year-old ex-army officer who had a reputation in Cracow as an elegant, free-spending man about town with good connections. His present fame, however, was centered...