Word: layering
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...defense: "The British schoolgirl just doesn't have the sort of figure one ought to draw attention to. Her poor little tum bulging with rice pudding, you know, and no foundation garments to take care of her seat. More often than not she is covered with a thick layer of puppy fat, and we think it more tactful to keep most of her well covered...
...drowned annually when their cars fall through thin ice), Jämsä drove a car, with its windows closed, off a ramp at 40 m.p.h. into 24 ft. of water, nearly panicked when a seat came loose and pinned him for a moment. But he found a layer of air under the roof, waited until the car filled with enough water to offset outside pressure, then opened the door and floated to safety...
...Astronomer Fred Whipple of Harvard thinks that although the moon may have plenty of dust, its surface has been solidified. There may be a thin layer "like dust on a grand piano," but the underlying material, cemented together (not stirred up) by bombardment from space, is probably "crunchy" and strong enough to support an alighting spaceship...
...altitude a gully 60 ft. deep had cut through alternating layers of sandstone and clay. The clay was barren but the sandstone was stuffed with stone tools. Five thousand square feet of the highest sandstone layer yielded 117 stone cleavers, 157 axes, 48 scrapers, hundreds of other tools and weapons. In the three highest sandstone layers, the tools were all made of mylonite, a fine-grained igneous rock; the fourth layer contained tools of quartz, and among them were bones of strange animals: a giant hippopotamus, pigs 6 ft. tall, and a short-necked giraffe-like creature with antlers...
...years ago, he thinks, Tanganyika had a capricious climate. During rainy periods, the lowland plains and valleys were good places to live. Animals preferred them to the hills, and ancient human hunters stayed near the animals. The upland lake was deep during rainy periods, and its bottom collected a layer of clay, but it had no attraction...