Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...herd of them, searching desperately for water, must have lumbered out on the caked floor of a dried-up lake. The crust broke and lowered them into soft, smothering clay. Then sediment covered their skeletons and preserved them perfectly. There. Dr. Stirton came upon remains of the great, out-of-date beasts, some of them with their legs doubled under them as they waited for death. He hopes that more digging will turn up, among other things, the delicate skeletons of baby diprotodons that were smothered in their mothers' pouches when they sank into...
...statue was dug up some 30 years ago, during building excavations in Rome, but the real credit for its discovery goes to an ardent old (60) Manhattan art dealer named Piero Tozzi. Over the years, dozens of connoisseurs had examined the Diana without penetrating the deep crust of filth that clothed her. But Tozzi saw the divinity under the dirt, bought Diana from a Roman art dealer, and spent six months lovingly cleaning her. By the time he had finished the task this spring, museum men across the U.S. and from Britain were anxious to have her. Fortunately for Buffalo...
Underground Wants. Forgotten Buraimi is suddenly a land remembered. Reason: oil, seemingly everywhere under the crust of the Arab peninsula. So far, none has been found within 300 miles. But each side wants to stake its claim...
...Layered Crust. Though all Monkeys are definitely uppercrust, the crust seems to come in layers. One alumna explains of the Pont Street houses: "We used to call them by their generic names. One was the Commercial House, where all the big-business daughters went. Then there was the Sporting House, where all the girls' fathers owned race horses. Finally, there was the Indian Colonels House, full of rather pale girls who had been brought up in foreign climes...
Cold fog, followed by freezing rain and falling temperature, reduced front-line fighting last week to its lowest scale since early October. On the frigid ridges of the central front, where the rain had put a glazed crust on four inches of fresh snow, the temperature dropped to 3° below zero. Enemy patrols were observed in white-clad camouflage. In a pre-dawn snowstorm, the Reds captured some frozen foxholes near "Old Baldy," slipped away after trading machine-gun fire with the allies for an hour...