Word: cementation
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...week, every Mexican knew that the foot-&-mouth war was on. Motoring city folk met it on the highways where olive-grey-clad soldiers had set up roadblocks. Cars were stopped while passengers tramped through a box filled with caustic soda-saturated sawdust. Then the cars slushed through a cement tank of the solution. Far & wide over the area of battle* Army planes patrolled, spotting cattle for ground troops. Once found, the beasts were slaughtered and quickly buried. In the costly offensive against aftosa-foot-&-mouth disease-there could be no quarter...
Also on Floreana were the Wittmers-contemporaries of the Baroness-a German family who had lived there since 1932. The Wittmers were the island's upper crust: their house had cement flooring. The Conways never rose so high in the social scale, but managed to survive and even enjoy life for four years in a dirt-floored...
After two weeks practice on the low, fast-bouncing surfaces of the Indoor Athletic Building, the slow, damp clay at Annapolis throw the Crimson just enough off balance to drop the decision by one match. The next day at West Point, rain forced the contest onto the fast indoor cement courts, aging throwing the Varsity off-balance to the tune of a 6-3 defeat...
...workmen, using hammers and steel wedges, spent the better part of five days methodically hacking the tops off the hallowed stairways and replacing them with special non-skid material. This cement material may eventually wear down, but it will never become slippery. The men were employed by a construction company whose sole function is the replacing of dangerous stairways with non-skid treads...
...from the ground floor up the first flight of stairs. "We tried everything to make these two steps safe," he said; "we sand-papered them, marked them with black lines, flooded them with spotlights. But people still fell." Now, under the new setup, a ramp covered with the special cement material has been set in over the stairs. If unsatisfactory, it can be lifted out intact...