Word: glossed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said last year, when his health seemed excellent and he smilingly scotched the sort of morbid rumor that forever comes up in the career of an aging giant. Of course he was not dead. The lines of his face had deepened and the skin had toughened. There was less gloss and more grey in his hair. But this was like seasonal change on a mountain. The basic topography was nearly permanent. He was, after all, Clark Gable...
...western Canada to California. The new line, called the "Big Yard," since it uses 36-in. pipe, will be the biggest pipeline between the West Coast and Canada, easing the demand on the heavily burdened pipelines from Texas. The pipe is coated on the inside with a high gloss plastic which speeds up transmission of the gas by as much as 10%. To store gas, P.G. & E. is converting a depleted gas field east of San Francisco into an immense underground storage area. It will ultimately hold 84 billion cu. ft. of natural gas, enough to heat...
Burdens of History Sir: As a devout member of the Anglican Communion, I am profoundly shocked by the bias and misinformation in the June 6 article entitled "Two Miracles & 40 Saints." Granted that Roman Catholics were persecuted by members of my church in those days, this article seems to gloss over the fact that it was a terrible age when all religions persecuted all other religions e.g., Bloody Mary. FRANKLIN W. BARTLE Martinsville...
...amount of sugar-coating by your reporting of the U-2 incident or fast footwork by soothing politicians can gloss over the cold, hard, terrifying fact that this nation is provoking war. How many Russian planes have been shot down over the States lately? After this incident, Khrushchev smells like a rose, and America just smells...
Rule No. 5: Each partner must forthrightly face the issues which cause separation as well as those which create unity. A false sense of Christian charity must not gloss over points of difference that cannot be reconciled. "There is no halfway house, for example, between believing a) that the pope is infallible, and b) that the pope is not infallible. Not even the combined genius of Catholic and Protestant theology could produce a satisfactory middle term. There is no such thing as being 'a little bit infallible...