Word: daube
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Europe's worst daub, poor England's best...
...high chain-link and wire fence runs the length of the zone; it remains under constant surveillance by U.S. and South Korean troops, who hole up in sandbagged guardposts with grenade launchers and submachine guns. Originally the guardposts were merely lookouts but, points out Captain Harold J. Daub of the 2nd Division, "they are fighting positions...
...sometimes concentrated bursts from infiltrators on probing missions. Some infiltrators like to throw stones at guardposts or flick small flashlights to distract the occupants or draw fire so that they can see where gun emplacements are set up. "We get little nibbles all the time," says Captain Daub...
...reflection of the defiant new bohemians, their art nouveau and madly mod fashions. Performances at the Fillmore attempt to induce psychedelic experiences without drugs. The hippies and teenyboppers, wearing everything from Arab caftans and top hats to frock coats and turbans, huddle over sticks of burning incense, casually daub the floors and each other with fluorescent paint...
...cautious pipe-organ wasps are repelled by the faint odor of ozone and other gases that rise from radioactive mud. More fascinating is the possibility that among the wasps of Oak Ridge, which have been exposed to radioactive wastes for a longer period than any others, the pipe-organ daub ers may have evolved a special sense that detects radioactivity and enables them to build nests that will not be lethal to their sensitive young...