Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cement playing floor has lines painted on it called "chase lines." If the player cannot return the ball, the referee calls out "chase 4, 3, etc.," depending on which line the ball hits. The opponent then has a chance to "lay down" a better chase. If he fails, he loses the point...
...Centre again. It will be a fight from start to finish. It will prove furthermore that the South as well as the East can produce a machine of eleven real football players; it will bring to Cambridge a group of men to whom sportsmanship is second nature; it will cement the good feeling between Harvard and the South...
Bill and Laurie Nelson were among the quietest couples on Bethany Home Road, a well-tailored neighborhood just outside the city limits of Phoenix. Ariz. They owned their home, a rambling ranch house trimmed with apple-green cement blocks; they were surrounded by tasteful but not lavish trappings-Louis XIV-style furniture, a collection of miniature ivory elephants, a lantana-and-plumbago hedge planted and tended by Bill Nelson himself...
...First National City Bank, the city's leading maker of personal loans, hiked interest rates from $3.83 per $100 to $4.25, the first rise since 1937. The Chase National Bank also boosted its rates. Prices started to edge up for a growing number of basic materials-steel pipe, cement, nickel, platinum, shellac, plumbing fixtures-and increases loomed for dinnerware, pots and pans, drapes, rugs, toys, refrigerators, washing machines. Retailers, trying to hold the price line, warned that unless the pressure eases, they will have to give way and also boost retail prices...
...undertaker changed was the old "wooden overcoat." In an age when the grave robber and the medical student were supposedly working hand in glove, "safe" coffins, made at first of iron, came in vogue. Soon there were models in zinc, glass terra cotta, papier-mâché, hydraulic cement and vulcanized rubber. The coffin torpedo, marketed in 1878, was the final answer to body snatchers-it featured a bomb that was triggered to go off when the coffin lid was lifted. However, the triumph of sepulchral gadgeteering was the "life signal," which offered mechanical surcease for the widespread terror...