Word: crusting
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...Dread. Now that Premier Nahas' once popular Wafdist government is troubled by financial scandal, and his people by economic distress, he turns-as Egyptian politicians always have-to twisting the lion's tail. Privately, Nahas Pasha, like King Farouk and the rest of Egypt's upper crust, probably dreads nothing so much as the withdrawal of Britain's defensive screen. Without it, Egypt would be in poorer shape to resist the Russians, its own restless mob, and the Israelis, whom many Egyptians still fear. The British are convinced, as they were in Iran, that the Egyptians...
...mines in Nigeria; the U.S. was able to get only 1,727,000 Ibs. last year. Since world production of columbium cannot be stepped up for another three years, the U.S. has turned to titanium. Luckily, it is one of the most abundant minerals in the earth's crust, and the U.S. abounds in titanium-bearing ore. But turning it into metal is an immensely difficult process. It reacts so violently with oxygen that the ingots must be melted in a vacuum, or under a blanket of inert...
...Some Crust. In Mexico City, police shut three bakeries and jailed the bakers for using motor oil in baking bread...
...exploded in a great sheet of jagged white fire. Flaming debris smoked and crackled on the black water. While the emergency team went to work, the carrier continued on its course. There was no confusion. From amidships, men threw float lights overboard as the still-blazing crust of the crashed Corsair slid past. On the bridge, Captain William Gallery, the Princeton's commander, swore stoutly...
Lorelei Lee is one tart that never seems to go stale. Her crust is as crisp in a Broadway musical today as it was in 1925, when Anita Loos composed her memoirs of a floozy, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Now Author Loos has tried the old recipe again...