Word: whisked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This summer, Professor Jepsen went back to Wyoming with a nine-man task force which enthusiastically tore into the site with little awls and whisk brooms. Just below the surface they found a mass of man-mangled buffalo bones with the ends broken off (a handy way to get at the marrow). With the bones were arrowheads and spearheads made by ancient nomads whom diggers call Yuma...
...crowded Paris race track, newlywed Rita Hayworth tottered in a faint and, almost before her friend Elsa Maxwell could whisk her out of the crowds, excitable French newspapers twittered a diagnosis: expectant motherhood. Rita and her Prince Aly Khan offered no diagnosis...
...deftly did the purloiner whisk the $11,800 worth of art treasure from its hooks that its absence was not noted for about an hour. Museum curators explained the thief had selected his loot so that he never disturbed the symmetry of the exhibit...
...inkwell, and scratched his head. Oh yes, the foolscap, Rushing down to the corner, holding his pants up with one hand, he piked up his tuxedo and 100 sheets of watermarked bond. Cleaned and pressed they were; he piled them on his bed, but placed a whisk broom drawer , brought out and unlocked a small steel case, and took from it 12 carefully sharpened pencils. He left the cuff links in the bottom and relocked the case. He was ready to begin...
Training for Thinkers. For his students, it was not always a pleasant experience. Morris Cohen seldom answered questions; he preferred to ask them. Like a modern Socrates ("though ... I lacked, except on rare occasions of good health, the courtesy of Socrates"), he wanted to whisk away his students' prejudices. Unlike Socrates, he felt that if their convictions vanished too, there was little he could do about it. He supplied no new doctrines to take the place of the ones he destroyed, gave his students no Cohen-made faith. His job as he saw it was to train "thinkers rather...