Word: mucking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's memory of Canadians in battle is a bright memory. The Canadians of World War I seemed to shine out of the blood and muck, the dreary panorama of trench warfare. They seemed to kill and to die with a special dash and lavishness. In a war and at a time when glory had almost lost its meaning, when the word was a travesty upon the heaping millions of the dead, the Canadians in France kept the sheen of glory...
...must be blown out and dredged out. A thousand holes in her steel skin, such as ports, must be sealed up. Out of her hull must be drained as many of the tons of dirty water as engineering judgment decides. And at least 10,000 cubic yards of muck must be sucked out of her shell. When all this is done, with a hundred other more technical operations, the Lafayette will regain buoyancy, will right herself like a released rolypoly-the Navy hopes...
...laboratory-born resins, chief constituent of the new plastic glues, set like concrete, are impervious to weather or bacterial attack. A piece of plastic plywood stuck into the muck of Florida's everglades by the Department of Agriculture was pulled out two years later in perfect condition...
...rain lashes in from the Bering Sea. It rains so hard in Yakutat that fresh concrete is ruined before it has a chance to set. Farther south, parts of Annette Island are a subarctic swampland, where plank roads have to be shored up on pilings driven into the muck...
...book rakes no muck. Its job is merely to ungild the lily and count its petals. Such subjects as the economics of picture making, Hollywood guilds and labor problems, censorship and the Hays Office, Rosten leaves for a later volume. He says little here about the mass of the 30,000 movie workers and movie makers who live ordinary lives on ordinary incomes. The picture he offers is of the movie colony (producers, actors, directors, writers) and its elite-some 250 people, most of whom earn $75,000 or more a year...