Word: cementation
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...evening traffic-prostitutes and pimps, bedraggled mental cases and loiterers-begins to saunter up the boulevard, one can sense something of old Hollywood. In front of the Chinese Theater, a knot of tourists may be gathered, staring at the imprint of Jean Harlow's heels in the cement, TO SID: IN SINCERE APPRECIATION: JEAN HARLOW: SEPT...
...downs in the relationship in NATO in the past, and when I say the past, I mean before our Administration was here. I think there is now a far better relationship than we have had for some time, and this visit will give us an opportunity to further cement that...
...addition to the previously planned fixing of roofs, gutters and windows, exterior construction under the expanded schedule will include "rejoining" bricks and cement, cleaning the walls and waterproofing, said Roger J. Cayer, the project manager...
...first place, words do not always get loaded by sinister design or even deliberately. In the second, that sort of language is not exploited only for mischievous ends. The American verities feature words-liberty, equality-that, on top of their formal definitions, are verily packed with the sentiments that cement U.S. society. The affectionate banalities of friendship and neighborliness similarly facilitate the human ties that bind and support. The moving vocabularies of patriotism and friendship are also subject to misuse, of course, but such derelictions are usually easy to recognize as demagoguery or hypocrisy...
...York City, used the school's computers for a silicon-chip joy ride through the stored riches of several corporations. Over a period of six months, the Dalton Gang eavesdropped on private data banks, juggled accounts and mischievously erased 10 million bits of data from a Canadian cement company's computer. Tracked down and thoroughly chastised, the youths promised to go straight. But since then, electronic pranksterism by other teen-age sorcerers has only grown more sophisticated-and diabolical...