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Reel (push) mowers, on the other hand, are designed with two blades that slide across each other and cut like scissors.
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Workshops include how to ferment your own veggies and how to manage stress, plus a scissor salsa workshop for kids and kids creative art and garden activities.
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Only about 10 percent of the population is left-handed, which may explain why everything from scissors, spiral notebooks, power tools, can openers, and, yes, even the driver’s cup holder are all designed with dominant handedness in mind.
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Outside Union Station, with his mobile hairdressing gear in his backpack — a gown, razor, comb, some clips and scissors — Coombes came upon Thomas, a 70-year-old Vietnam veteran who has been homeless for 10 years.
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A report on the June 5 incident indicates Lyles sat on a couch in the same apartment, a child in her lap, and repeatedly refused officers’ orders to drop the scissors.
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Using the tips of scissors, the waiter cuts the tender, square slab into pieces small enough to tuck into the folds of sweet, steamed buns.
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He had reason to be frightened: Within a few days it was implausibly reported that Abdulaziz had committed suicide by cutting both his wrists simultaneously with a pair of scissors.
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Use sharp, scissor-type clippers or clippers especially designed for nail trimming.
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First Known Use of scissor
15th century
First Known Use of scissor
circa 1625
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