Word: cementation
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...another point Kauffmann and Fontaine were tied together and placed in a coffin. When they were let out for a moment, Fontaine peered under his blindfold and saw that they were near a cement factory. "They're going to kill us here, put our bodies in cement and dump us in the sea," said Fontaine. Later Kauffmann and Fontaine were put in a new cell and chained like animals to a spike in the floor...
...last week, Bush was pursued by questions about Iran-contra, Ed Meese, the trade-bill veto and the Administration's lackluster civil rights record. In each case, the Vice President swallowed hard and forcefully stuck with the boss. That can't continue indefinitely. "Reagan knows that Bush must eventually cement his own relationship with the American people," says Bush Political Director Rich Bond. "But like a lot of high-wire acts, timing is everything...
...Airport last week. As it did, a string of incandescent flares dropped from the aircraft, a necessary defense against Stinger missiles, the U.S.-made, heat-seeking, antiaircraft weapons used by the mujahedin, Afghanistan's resistance. On the airport perimeter, sunburned Soviet soldiers stood around a formidable new stone-and-cement guard post topped by a hammer-and-sickle flag. Their thoughts were turning toward withdrawal from their flinty outpost. "Who wouldn't like to go home?" asked Victor Avershin, a blond, 19-year-old private. "Everybody wants to go home...
...last 20 years, Fein said, the Jewish community has sought some sort of "cement" to bind its members together, whether it be through higher education, socialism...
...smoldering subtexts of Simon's brimming narrative. Prostitutes gave the contagion to their customers, who passed it on to their wives. If women were not rendered barren by the bacterium, there were always the risks of childbirth and puerperal fever. Women were meant to provide heirs and cement profitable agreements through wedlock...