Word: layerings
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...skinned out of her clothes and put on her silver dangles and her musky Java perfume and her man made love to her in his old-fashioned crashing way, kneading her like putty, softening the art gum of her self and spreading her out in a thin layer to the far corners of the world. Coming...
...other terms. Brecht is showing us that we have developed a social system which-like Chicagoseparates, rather than unites, every man. "Human skin grows thicker and thicker." Schlink says, because of this system. This skin keeps people from knowing each other. The only force that pierces this, outer layer is one which lies outside the world of accepted motives and rewards-a force like the competitive spirit of the wrestlers...
...even more destructive phenomenon is the giant slab avalanche, or Schneebrett (snow board), in which a huge mass of snow may come sliding down, as at Reckingen in Switzerland last week. Highly unpredictable, slab avalanches occur when one cohesive layer of snow breaks free of the ground or of other snow layers. They can be caused by rising temperatures that send lubricating water between layers of snow, letting the white blanket slip like a quilt from the bed of a tossing sleeper. Exerting forces as great as 100 tons per square yard, such avalanches have been known to upend steel...
...rocket's nose cone contained two cameras designed to photograph ultraviolet light from the sun's thin outer layer or chromosphere in the few seconds that the moon blocked out the rest...
...used to photograph the ?? or chromosphere as ?? ?ls into the eclipse ?? ?? of light ?? rocket's cameras ?? ?he chemical finger? ?? identify the reactions ?? that region of the sun. ?? ?mosphere is only visible for a few seconds during a total eclipse before the moon covers up the thin layer...