Word: layers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Missouri's sprawling state bureaucracy consists of 87 departments and commissions that have grown up, layer upon layer, under the long Democratic rule. Instead of ousting faithful bureaucrats held over from previous administrations, many Governors simply created new agencies for their supporters...
...drawings are at least 1,000 years old, the work of a sophisticated pre-Inca people who survived with the help of elaborate irrigation systems. To create their desert art, these early Peruvians removed strips of the topmost layer of stone, piece by piece, exposing the lighter-colored dirt underneath. They apparently made their precise markings without modern tools or surveying gear or even a high platform from which to view their progress...
...wearing hats that looked like British bowlers, were sitting behind open sacks filled with flours and cereals of all different colors and textures. I wandered through the crowds that moved in a relentless parade up and down the streets. A fat peasant woman, her small son sketching in a layer of flour beside her, looked up from her knitting and, as I passed, called out in the guttural Spanish that many of the assimilated Aymara speak, "Harina barata, muy barata"--Flour, very cheap. I looked at her and smiled. Sensing a potential customer with mucho dinero, she put down...
...truck (which can supply electricity for lights and appliances). The snowmobiles are also used for getting round the ice towns, but purists frown on them, complaining that their racket scares the fish away. Another factor in the growth of ice-fishing has been the development of thermal-layer underwear, which enables the shanty anglers to go calling on their neighbors in comfort. Many anglers bring along outhouses, furnished with "thunder mugs"-pots with disposable plastic liners. Even fishing is largely automated, thanks to the tip-up, a device that raises a red flag or sounds a buzzer when a fish...
...tunnels, an underground building is not merely an extension of the tunnel system. Present technology does not allow us to hide a building--a structure below ground will make its presence felt on the ground because of the type of surface it generates and because of a shallow soil layer which cannot support large plant materials. In terms of its interaction with the rest of the Yard, the Pusey Library must be regarded as architectural landscaping rather than as a building which defines the space around it. The library will, however, be "visible;" windows and light wells will give...