manicure scissors
nail scissors

The tiny operating room manicure scissors cut my dress up.

But the lawns, she said, "look like they have been manicured with manicure scissors."

When I scolded her, she snatched up some manicure scissors and went for my arm.

Good answer, I thought, then took a pair of manicure scissors and snipped out the label.

"He covered up the accident by cutting the burned part out with a pair of manicure scissors."

The attending nurse spent ten minutes cutting my dress off with those tiny operating room manicure scissors.

She uttered a sound of dismay, took manicure scissors from the medicine cabinet and clipped them away.

Roarke frowned at the tiny pair of manicure scissors.

Do not use a sharp object like manicure scissors to dig under your nail, because the toe might get infected.

She snipped off a lock of his hair one day with a pair of manicure scissors.

Use an emery board and sharp manicure scissors or clippers to trim your fingernails.

"Hold still," she murmured as she laid the gauze aside and picked up the pair of manicure scissors.

The Transportation Security Administration eventually relented on tweezers and manicure scissors.

Then the intravenous morphine, the tiny operating room manicure scissors cut my dress off, the little patch panties, the police photos.

She suggested cutting the unwanted hair with manicure scissors, preferably with rounded ends, or using a battery-operated hair trimmer made for the purpose.

Noting that the A.P. reported that maintenance of the grounds had cost $44,000 over two years, she added, "they probably did use manicure scissors."

She was told only one carry-on and a handbag, but her advance calls to the airline and airport failed to warn her to leave her manicure scissors at home.

"Every night we cut it down with Eileen's manicure scissors," Ruth McKenney wrote of their unwelcome houseplant, "and every morning it was long enough to braid.

Some backseat passenger will probably end up with a wad of chewing gum the size of a bird's nest plastered to a scalp, necessitating emergency removal with manicure scissors.

He added loudly, "Don't forget to leave behind all personal effects which are metal or have sharp edges, such as manicure scissors, jewelry with large stones, or anything which might puncture the fabric of the survival pod.

"You get things like manicure scissors that have been in the family for 50 years, pocket knives that people didn't remember they had on their key rings - anything that they aren't allowed to take on the plane."

But nothing caused as much pain as the time Ms. Harris had to use manicure scissors and tweezers to pull stitches from the face of her 3-year-old son, Wayne, in their apartment here, 25 miles west of Rochester.

The movie that really needed to be made was different: "Mom Alone," the story of a woman whose family goes to Disney World and leaves her accidentally in her own bedroom, where she finds inner peace and her manicure scissors.

While these thoughts were passing through my mind, I had got the manicure scissors, and Lou was snipping the threads of her kimono lining round those places where those fiercely fascinating fingers of hers had felt what we used to call in the hospital a foreign body.

What I witnessed at O'Hare - and eight other major American airports I've been to since Sept. 11 - suggests that two months after hijackers turned commercial passenger jets into weapons of mass destruction, there's no great hurry to standardize or enforce airline security far beyond the ruthless crackdown on manicure scissors.