Word: layering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pocketed $55,000 for the movie rights to her book; 2) publicly scratched Hollywood's eyes out when it offered her $1,200 a week ("I don't want any part of Hollywood"); 3) turned up as a blue-ribbon cook whose apple pies and chocolate layer cakes had won top prizes at the Michigan and North Carolina State fairs...
...present their most pressing task is a WPA-ish project of leveling off a vacant lot next to Mather Hall for the purpose of constructing a couple of volleyball courts and several horseshoe-pitching games. The ground is to be covered with a layer of cinders as soon as the leveling process is completed...
...Yankee blood, an overwhelming aversion to possessions, four years of Harvard, and 25 years of beating the living hell out of my insides with bad hooch and bad food." Joe professes never to be without his "three Hs" - homelessness, hunger, hangovers. On winter nights he sports a layer of newspapers between his shirt and undershirt. He is 5 ft. 4, weighs 95 lb., and trims his cinnamon beard every other Easter. Twenty-six years ago he began a mysterious work- An Oral History of Our Time - a chronicle composed entirely of chance conversations on the Bowery and elsewhere...
Struck again & again, she had been stopped dead. Miraculously, there were none but minor explosions, though oil sprayed over the men on the bridge. They cut loose rafts and abandoned her without panic; the last man to leave was the 49-year-old captain. Through an inches-thick layer of oil they paddled away from the sinking vessel. Thirty minutes after she was struck, she upended, hissing like a giant calliope, protesting through all her shattered structure, and sank...
...other British, Australian and South African pilots had been patrolling the Gulf of Tunis. A formation of Kittyhawks flew under a layer of Spitfires...