Word: corded
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...babbling confusion of Marines in undress waiting to take showers, crowding around mirrors to put their hair in curlers and massaging their faces with creams. In the grey dawn they comb out the pin curls, feverishly powder noses, paint on lipstick (which matches the Marine red hat-cord) and dash off to breakfast and their duties...
...picture (called Brainstorm) of a brain in a storm. (The brain forms the body of an ostrich and the spinal cord is the bird's neck which tunnels through the sand, emerges on the other side with a sheepish expression. The brain's convolutions represent voluptuous female nudes. Miss Stilwell says the brain is that of an escapist...
...beautifully modeled maiden, nine feet high. Her hair was done up in a bun behind her head; a long cloak, which her left hand grasped, covered her dress. Her right hand held a lily to her bosom. Around her neck was carved a necklace of disks; a tasseled cord girdled her waist. On each arm was a bracelet hung with draperies. The wood was well preserved, with few barnacles or seaweed, and traces of white, blue, green, gold and red paint glowed faintly. Rusty iron bolts showed where the figure had been fastened to a ship's bow. With...
...synthetic-rubber situation, which seemed well in hand when Rubber Czar William M. Jeffers resigned last month, was somewhat out of hand again last week. Five major tire makers warned of a possible breakdown in tire making, chiefly because of shortages in manpower and rayon cord. The total tire reserve was down to less than 3,000,000. The manufacturers doubted that they could meet the goal of 30,000,000 new tires next year. And some disappointed motorists began to raise doubts about the quality of synthetic-rubber tires...
Rubber Director Bradley Dewey, Jeffers' successor, promptly retorted that these were needless worries. He said steps were being taken to supply the needed manpower and cord, declared his tests showed the new tires would be good enough. Officials pooh-poohed an Associated Press report that Indiana highway police had found synthetic tires faulty and had to discard a third of them after 1,500 miles because they developed heat blisters. The Indiana tires, said the officials, were defective early products. Said Dewey: "We are now producing synthetic passenger-car tires which, if driven at legal speed, will stand...