Word: flaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tenderly he disentangled the rotting kings & queens and went to work. He washed faces, removed maggots from straw, drilled thousands of tiny holes and injected shellac with a hypodermic needle into their crumbling substance. Cherishing every flake of paint, he faithfully copied its color...
Raftery has found enough tools and the bones of enough domestic animals to feel sure that men who lived on Lough Gara were prosperous farmers. Not only could they mill flour, but they had also reached the stage of specialization of labor. A large deposit of 200 flake-cutting tools found in one spot suggests a village toolsmith's shop. One Bronze Age axhead is so finely, finished it might have been machine made...
...Flake & Fall. Until the 17th century, says Author Hawkes, Britons seemed to understand their stone. Then classical ideas captured the imagination of the architects, and there began an insatiable demand for freestone (close-grained rock with no visible layering) "to build facades which were largely dependent on . . . clean surface texture." In the 17th and early 18th centuries, the architects rushed up so many new Oxford colleges that the stone was often used "unseasoned" and without regard for the lie of the strata in the quarry. The result: "Within a few decades the poor quality freestones began to blister, flake...
...Murder is a pretty stupid affair," Dr. Ford claims. "The chances that a murderer won't drop as much as a flake of dandruff near his victim, nor be seen by any witnesses...
CORPORAL LEON E. FLAKE PRIVATE JACK P. HOGUE CORPORAL JESSE R. DAUGHRITY Korea...