Word: cementation
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...Stand. Last week Holy Man Bhave, 57, reached New Delhi, took up his stand before a small grass and bamboo hut on the edge of the square cement platform on which Gandhi was cremated. Here five members of the government's planning commission, introduced by Nehru listened as Bhave argued for 1) village wells, instead of huge irrigation projects, 2) village industries, instead of mass factories, 3) increased grain production from small farms. After attending a meeting, India's ascetic President Rajendra Prasad announced that he had given his Bihar estate to Bhave. In the United Provinces, where...
...elderly housewife with a large cancer in her gullet was wheeled into a basement room in the London, Ont. Victoria Hospital last week. A big lead-cased machine, like an upended cement mixer, was swung into position over her. There was a hissing of air ducts; a small window in the big machine opened for a few minutes, then snapped shut. The patient had received one of the first series of treatments by the first "Cobalt Bomb," medical science's newest weapon against cancer...
...heard a ghostly rapping in his car, he stopped and asked a resident for an explanation. Snapped John Novak: "There is no ghost, and no child was killed on this street. We have been hearing this knock for three years-ever since they put in the new pavement of cement slabs. In the daytime, the slabs expand in the sun's heat. In the evening, the concrete contracts, and the slabs wobble when a car goes over it." The edges grate on each other, and the noise echoes in the car. Grumbled Novak: "I swear that nearly every high...
...chapel is in a cement-walled basement room, with very simple whitewash covering, the cement. A large black cross is on the wall opposite the seats. The simplicity is to insure non-denominational worship...
...ruddy glow on the night sky. But last week the night sky over Abadan was black. All but a handful of the 3,500 British oilmen who had tended the fires lovingly (and profitably) since they first flamed aloft had gone home. Darkness closed in along the neat cement walks separating the rows of bungalows where they had lived. The only sounds in the deserted town were the echo of Iranian sentries' boots and the whimper of an abandoned dog sniffing vainly for the scent of his British master...