Word: cementation
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Minutes after Powell fell dead on the sidewalk, other students swarmed onto the street. One girl yelled: "This is worse than Mississippi!" Another shouted at police: "Come on, shoot another nigger." The youths threw bottles, cans and pieces of cement at 75 policemen, who struggled for two hours to get the mob under control. A Negro patrolman suffered a concussion when struck...
...store groups and clothing producers. In addition, brokers now favor the rails, utilities and steels, whose production is expected to meet or exceed the 1955 record of 117 million tons. There is declining enthusiasm for the recently popular airlines, which are leveling out after a sharp climb, and the cement companies, which have suffered from trouble signs in the construction market...
...chagrin, the Crillon discovered that some of its columns were made of wood cleverly painted to simulate stone. The facade of the Invalides, where Napoleon lies buried, provided another embarrassing surprise. Pockmarked by gunfire during the liberation of Paris, it had been repaired on the cheap, with cement...
...memorable exchange in 1948, Architectural Critic Lewis Mumford accused Park Commissioner Robert Moses of creating playground spaces "that are merely leftovers, bleak asphalt wastes, marks of an absence of human interest and an almost positive distaste for beauty." To parents' demands that sawdust be substituted for cement, Park Commissioner Newbold Morris replied with a pungent comment on the problems of the great big city. "Sawdust gets full of splinters, broken glass, empty cigarette packages and debris. We're experimenting with a rubber compound, but it's been ripped with knives. We have $450,000 a year...
...some 50,000 Nubians, their walls of tobey (from which Spanish takes the word adobe) gaudily painted with symbols ranging from scorpions to flowering steamboats, dissolve and collapse as the Nile laps among them. Of 43 villages, 33 have already been evacuated, their citizens relocated in stone-and-cement villages replete with grocery markets and food-processing plants, at Kom Ombo, 40 miles north of Aswan. Many Nubians resent the move. Their culture, which survived waves of invaders from the Egyptians to the Turks, seems doomed to certain dilution in the new settlements. But as one Egyptian said: "What...