Word: cementation
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...When we last left Cambridge. Harvard's most seasoned administrators--and some of its most erudite scientists-- had reached the much-publicized conclusion that the ivy on the University's buildings was munching away at the cement up which it crawled, causing lasting and expensive maintenance problems...
...When we last left Cambridge, Harvard's most seasoned administrators--and some of its most erudite scientists--had reached the much-publicized conclusion that the ivy on the University's buildings was munching away at the cement up which it crawled, causing lasting and expensive maintenance problems...
...bomb exploded a few blocks from the hotel, killing two, shooting a gray-white pillar of smoke into the sky, which turned black before vanishing. Destruction is everywhere. An apartment house on a corner is cracked in the middle like a bone. It sags and heaves. Fragments of cement and wire hang from the structure at impossible angles. A carton of unopened Pepsis rests on a slab, waiting to fall. There is a hole in the building where the garage was; it gives the place the look of an ancient cave. In the rubble a bashed-in Mercedes, a book...
...however, he refuses to say whether the election marks "twilight or dawn, an era ending or an era beginning. "He suggests that the ultimate significance of 1980 remains in the hands of Ronald Reagan and his Republican coat tail-riders, who can now either cement their tenuous 1980 coalition or embark on another "wrong turning" that could, as in the 1960s, "bring us to convulsion in the streets. "This is perhaps the one unfortunate thing about America in Search of Itself. More than any of the previous Making of the President installments. White writes here of long-term political trends...
...unchanged architecturally. The traditional and incomparably uncomfortable concrete seats have all been removed, but they are being replaced rapidly by new and equally rock-hard concrete. In addition, new steel beams and freshly painted seat numbers will complement the work now being done by mammoth cranes, which dangle the cement tonnage far above the field and then gently drop each segment into place...