Word: grime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grime's Graves was a center of industry of the Tardenoisian people-a shadowy race who inhabited England some 6,000 years ago. The Rudges believe that the ancient Tardenoisians laid out the pudding stone trail to guide them to their flint mines. The center of their culture may have been the ring of pudding stones now in the foundation of the Chesham church...
...Evil Place. The Rudges still did not know who set out the mysterious stones, but they doggedly followed the pudding stone trail across eastern England. At last it took them to Grime's Graves in Norfolk, a dark, fir-grown hollow where Stone Age man from earliest times dug flint with staghorn picks. Norfolk country people shun the spot, and call it "the evil place." But for the Rudges, it was the payoff...
...spruce up dull paint with a coat of bright varnish. As she became more skilled, she repaired masterpieces by Rubens, Tiepolo and Velasquez. Once, working on a dark, somber painting by the 16th century Italian Jacopo Palma, she found a whole covey of saints and angels hiding under the grime. Another time, she was called in to restore an unusual Lucas Cranach; instead of one of the 16th century master's sly, dreamy-looking women, the canvas showed a mysterious black-cloaked, black-hooded figure. The countess got to work, and sure enough, under the black was a typical...
...past year, fear that other stations will soon be wiped off the map. New Jerseyites have formed a "protective association" to get some action on such claimed commutation hazards as wooden trestles, high fares, and cars that let in snow and soot in the winter, heat and grime in the summer. Philadelphians, where the bulk of commuters ride, are kinder. Said one: "When we knock the Pennsy, we knock it gently, like an old pipe or a good wife...
...Atlanta, one of his first moves was to have the old building cleaned of half a century's grime and soot. Then he repainted the inside in fresh new colors: eggshell white, canary yellow, lime green. He had the heavy, forbidding front doors taken down, put in glass doors that opened by electric eye. In the main circulation room, he set up a Recordak machine to charge books in & out photographically in a fraction of the time it used to take...