Word: countersunk
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...tough. Jonathan, a former college basketball guard, is an aggressive negotiator. The Apple Corps is at a disadvantage dealing with a lawyer and a woman who has had advanced psychology courses. Before the last finishing nail is driven and countersunk, Judith has earned the admiration and respect of the crew by swinging her own hammer. That the firm does not make much money on the Souweine job suggests how hard it is to get rich in the construction business. Still, the Corps is a young outfit that needs the work. Jim, Ned, Alex and Richard are equal partners...
...13th century Crucifix, which had been moved back to its original home in Santa Croce from the Uffizi shortly before the flood. The water took off more than 75% of its paint surface and, the restorers found, would have stripped more had Cimabue not had the nails countersunk and covered with tiny wooden plugs. Exposed, they would have corroded, ruining more paint. Until 1969, the surviving pigment was too soft to touch; then it was painstakingly removed and cleaned. Soon it will be glued back on Cimabue's original panel...
...Vanessa and to have more arms and legs?quite nice legs that somehow look sexy even though they are semaphorically knock-kneed. Lynn, continues Ustinov, "gives the impression of knocking things down by mistake because she doesn't know her tail is wagging." She has a kewpie-doll face countersunk in a strawberry-blonde mane; she wears what looks like fluorescent face powder; and she sometimes paints her lower lashes, Twiggy-style, so far below the natural eyeline that people wonder if they need a hairnet. But the eyes look out between the lashes with a wonderful sparkling sanity...
...spike heel has made its mark on the U.S. ever since it speared its way into fashion, leaving behind a trail of dented vinyl, punctured Persian rug and pockmarked hardwood. But spike wearers complain that they are forever getting mired in asphalt, countersunk on lawns, trapped on escalator steps and sidewalk gratings. Now comes Heeleze, plastic disks that are to spike heels what snowshoes are to the boot. Heeleze are about an inch overall in diameter, now come in one size but will soon come in three, designed to fit most heels, and are being distributed initially by caterers...
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