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Anyone can enjoy knowing how a $10 bill came to be called a sawbuck (the Roman numeral "X" that appeared on early notes reminded people of the wooden sawbuck used in carpentry), or how the word "robot" came into English (it comes from the Czech word "robota," meaning "drudgery," and was part of the title of a widely popular 1920 Czech play), or how the Indo-European root for "beech tree," "bhago-," gave us the word "book" (Germanic tribes used beech staves to carve runes on).
At the end of the 19th century unemployed samurai— adventurous but still attached to the old traditions — took their families to Hokkaido to carve out a new life for themselves.
There were, moreover, no attempts to carve Lincoln in the nude with drapery, as there had been with Washington, no efforts to heroicize him out of his trousers, just as there were none to popularize him with comfy sportswear.
The people still carve jade and build seaworthy junks, all by hand.
The paper's main editorial Friday was not about the impeachment process but about a new revelation that Britain's D-Day commander and military hero, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, had referred 50 years ago to the African as "a complete savage" whose only hope would be a British colonial "master plan" to carve out giant West, Central, and East African federations and unlock their vast wealth for Britain's benefit.