Word: layers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Probably without analyzing it, the Victorian woman felt impelled to cover herself with layer upon heavy layer of elegant materials, awkwardly expanded with hoops and bustles, to help her personality compete with the cluttered detail of her rooms. The woman of today . . . can sparkle, even in a simple sheath gown, without fear that the elegance of her personality and appearance will be lost...
...Montana's Dawson County, and speculators were hustling in last week to snap up the remaining drilling rights on a million acres of surrounding territory. Oilmen are excited about the strike because it is the first commercial well to tap the Montana section of Williston Basin, a vast layer of sedimentary rock under much of. North and South Dakota, Montana, and parts of Canada. The well is only 100 miles from Tioga, N. Dak., where the first strike in the entire Williston Basin was made four months...
Last February, Dr. Carleton ("Cannonball") Coon, a University of Pennsylvania archaeologist who had made a specialty of Iran, revisited the area around Ghar Hotu.* In semidarkness, assorted Iranian laborers and kibitzers, directed by Dr. Coon and his young (25) Harvard assistant, Louis Dupree, stripped layer after layer from the surface of the cave. At the Iron Age layer they turned up arrowheads, pins and pottery. The Bronze Age yielded javelin heads, rings and vases. Deeper down they found fine painted crocks, and then "software Neolithic," probably the oldest plain Neolithic pottery on record...
...chapel to the outdoor freshness of a spring morning is achieved in descriptive language of unusual beauty: "Everywhere among the retreating trees strayed sober clouds of evergreen and mild clouds of blossom and the dreaming laurels, and everywhere, as deep into the stunned woods as they could see, layer above unwavering layer, the young leaves led like open shale; while, against their walking, apostolically, the trees turned." The swim itself and the boyish killing of a snake afterwards are described in flashing language. But it is just here that Author Agee falters, clothing the action with symbols for which...
...fight for "Tombstone Hill," rising 1,200 feet from a valley on the central front, was typical. A North Korean rearguard clung to its one-man pillboxes studding Tombstone's flank. The fortifications were foxholes, each roofed over by a three-foot layer of logs, stones and earth. Each man inside had plenty of ammo and a two days' bag of rice. U.S. Marine Corsairs blasted Tombstone with rockets, seared it with napalm. Shell bursts enveloped it. G.I.s crawled up, peppering the enemy's pillboxes with small-arms fire. Those who survived held off the U.N. attack...