Word: meshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Africa hands are painfully familiar with the phenomenon known as "Wawa." It stands for West Africa Wins Again, and summarizes the frustrating inability to mesh modern methods and ancient habits. Wawa crops up at cable offices, where either the Telex or the telegrapher are inevitably out. It turns up at the airport, where engines, customs officials or both are missing just when someone is desperately in need of a flight. Wawa hovers miasmatically in hotel rooms, turning a once placid shower into a veritable Victoria Falls, or switches telephone calls from one trunk line to another. Africa is progressing...
...sell wild trees for extra income are being edged out by large tree plantations, where as many as a million evergreens are mechanically planted, protected and harvested, then carefully graded by size and shape. To protect their trees, shippers have begun to wrap them in a new plastic mesh that costs about 25? a tree but ensures arrival in good condition. At Montreal's MacDonald College, Dr. A.R.C. Jones is grafting European pines onto Canadian trees to produce a greener, fuller tree that will retain its needles longer...
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART-11 West 53rd. The main attraction is Pierre Bonnard's cloudless skies and serene interiors (through Nov. 29), but also on tap are sculptures by Britain's Eduardo Paolozzi (through Nov. 10), and 15 mesh, spring and wire works by German Sculptor Günter Haese, who first caught U.S. curators' eyes at Kassel's 1964 Documenta (through...
...Since a pool cover is probably the best idea, builders now offer a pushbutton elevator that rises out of the pool bottom until it decks over the pool as a play slab for parties. Unhappily, the gadget costs at least $1,500. Happily. $150 or so buys a polyethylene mesh cover that supports...
...arrangement provides more flexibility, mobility, and diversity of coverage." What he did not explain is why Cronkite is not at least one of the flukes of the new anchor. Is it because Friendly has never cared much for Cronkite, or because he thinks that Captain Cronkite does not easily mesh with other newsmen...