Word: layering
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Even the least observant have noticed the deterioration of local thoroughfares. When holidays started, they were relatively clear; now they are coated with a most unpleasant layer of slippery material. The shortest reading period in the memory of most inhabitants does not add any discernible note of joy, either. It was inevitable, of course--a confluence of the phases of the moon and the by-laws of the Corporation--but its immediate presence lends it no special enchantment...
...ideal place for a temporary rink, and it has lights which makes it suitable for skating in the evening when the ice stays frozen. If the HAA digs a shallow trench around the rink to produce a barricade and then floods the area at night, a hard, thick layer of ice is sure to form...
...rolls, 2) 24 pats of butter, 3) one pint of cider, 4) a triple chef's salad, 5)3 four-egg cheese omelette, 6) a double order of French fries, 7) four pieces of toast, 8) a double portion of strawberry shortcake, 9) one slice of chocolate layer cake, 10) one piece of cheesecake, 11) one pear tart, 12) one cheese sandwich, 13) one egg salad sandwich, 14) two portions of mocha nut cake, 15) a dessert of cottage cheese and peaches covered with sour cream, then refused cream & sugar with her coffee because "they're fattening...
...little boy...?" Hear air raid siren at left elbow. Turns out it's not air raid siren at all but little boy. Forsythe. Pick self off floor and get caught up in herd of stampeding gamins. We sweep through the Hopalong Cassidy Corral, Scout Hut, and emerge in a layer of purgatory which Dante, lucky fellow, never visited. Gamins disperse into scouting parties and disappear...
Carefully, layer by layer, Dr. Sears stripped the mound, which was about 25 ft. high and 100 ft. across. He found it sprinkled with skulls, like a fruitcake studded with raisins. Says Sears: "It has more dead people put into it in funnier ways than any mound in the Southeast...