Word: cementation
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...achievement or creating one of their own. There is simply a certain joy in regarding concrete activity; welders crouched over their work and casting a blue glow from the arcs of their rods; electrician laying out conduit in angular symmetry; and all of them anticipating the deliveries of the cement mixers queued up on Mass. Ave, and waiting to dump their contents into the pumps that will eagerly suck in the grey sludge...
Granny! Jethro! Elly May! C'mon in from the cement pond and sit down for a spell. You remember Miss Jane Hathaway, who used to work down at the bank with Mr. Drysdale when they called us the Beverly Hillbillies? Now, Granny, keep your bonnet on. Anyways, it turns out that her real name is Nancy Kulp, 62, and don't this beat all: she's running for the United States Congress in the ninth district of her home state of Pennsylvania. I know it's hard to imagine that strait-laced woman as a liberal...
Anxious to cement its ties with other Third World nations, leaders of Communist China have become more openly critical of the United States, though generally not of Reagan himself, Williams Professor of History and Political Science Benjamin I. Schwartz says. Attitudes of the Taiwan government has been similarly critical, but have fluctuated with declining expectations of the President as he toned down his commitment to arms sales for that country. Schwartz says, "It's still a bit premature, but as elections approach, you'll probably see a move away from Reagan...
...manually. In Uganda and Angola, some high-rises lack glass panes and running water. In 1975 Canada built a $2.5 million semi-automated bakery in Dar es Salaam, but often there is no flour to make bread. Moscow's aid efforts have fared no better. A Soviet-built cement factory at Diamou, Mali, was designed for a capacity of 50,000 tons a year...
...KISSINGER EFFORT to cement Israeli-South African military ties has worked as planned. While Israeli leaders deny that their forces are advising or patrolling with South African forces, there is much evidence to the contrary. The Rand Daily Mail of South Africa in 1981 reported that Israelis were training South African-supported UNITA guerillas, a terrorist group which has attacked a number of civilian targets in Angola...