Word: burlaped
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...were fighting a dogged, seldom dramatic battle of containment, with wet snow and rain adding to their difficulties. At suburban East Kildonan a 25-foot dike section burst, swamping 150 homes in a boiling wall of water ten feet high. But in most places the dikes-made of sodden burlap sandbags-were holding...
...embraced by Italian Cinema Queen Anna Magnani (Open City). Sightseeing in the Coliseum, he raised his gold-plated trumpet, gave out with a honey-toned Sleepy Time Down South. Seated on a Coliseum ledge, he dashed off music and words for a 32-bar improvisation, then lifted his burlap voice and sang it on the spot...
...soon collecting ideas for paintings from needlework, mosaics, carpets, runic stones, the scrawls of children and madmen. No matter how simple the material he borrowed, his perceptive, neurotic vision transformed it into something immeasurably sophisticated. He experimented endlessly with techniques, scratched designs on blackened glass, painted on burlap, mixed his media until it was impossible to describe a painting as oil, watercolor or tempera...
...became commander of the foreign mercenaries, but he was ousted and fled to the rebels, who gave him a high command. Captured later by government forces, he was drowned before he could be brought to trial. Some said his boat capsized; some said he was plumped into a burlap bag and dumped into...
...Year Canton steamed under a tropical sun. Then a biting, near freezing rain hit the city. Ricksha boys and sampan coolies sought refuge in dry alleyways where they spent hours culling their tattered palm-frond raincoats for lice. At night they slept on the sidewalks wrapped in dirty burlap bags awaking only to chase away marauding rats which feast in the swill-strewn streets after the city's human population has retired...