Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moon plowed through the ring of satellites, they smashed into its surface and exploded like H-bombs. They dug craters, sometimes cracked the crust and let lava from the hot interior flow out to form "seas" and plains. Later the moon cooled and wrinkled. The last of the satellites threw up mountainous walls of rubble, scattered giant boulders for miles around, and etched brilliant white craters on the brittle crust...
...troupe of traveling Shakespearean players, Elsa met (through her father's theatrical friends) the great Caruso and a couple of Jacks: London and Barrymore. She traveled to Europe and Africa as the piano accompanist of a vaudeville singer, and soon she had cut her way through the upper crust of three continents. Included among the names she drops: Actress Elsie Jams' mother, a thrifty Ohio housewife intent on buying her way into British society ("John dear, fetch a 75? Corona for the noble lord"), Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont, arbiter of New York society ("Every woman should marry twice...
Billy Is Different. From Savonarola to Billy Sunday, evangelists have exhorted sinners to repentance and preached salvation as a right-now, yes-or-no decision. The hot Gospel played a major part in the making of America, when churches were fewer, distances vast and life hard. But upper-crust Christians tend to regard the sweaty urgency of evangelistic Christianity as frequently hypocritical and always in bad taste. Billy Graham is different...
...years later the rest of the refectory was rebuilt, and the sandbags removed. But the mural was obscured by a newly formed crust of white mold, brought on by long contact with the rain-dampened sandbags. A fingertip touch would dent the pasty surface, and there seemed no way of removing the mold without flaking off the picture as well. The world had seen the last, apparently, of the Last Supper...
...Brantner's case by adding two amino acids, lysine and threonine, to his diet. Also, he has had a break because his rice dishes prepared in the center's elaborate metabolic kitchens have included such delicacies as olives, mushrooms and an apple pie (made with a rice crust...