Word: oilcloth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relief, he turned to the small oilcloth parcel in front of him, and after wiping his hands on his fresh bookbag, he pushed back the clock and bookrack and set to. Inside was a finely cut piece of pumpkin pie, a Halloween surprise from the family. Only through precision and restraint had the slices been made to last so long...
...oddest gandy-dancer on the railroads in Manitoba during the summer of 1926 was a 6-ft. 4-in. American medical student named Ben Spock, who owned a resplendent red handlebar mustache and an oilcloth blackboard. After a ten-hour day of shoveling gravel and sand to keep the railroad track from sinking into the muskeg, Spock would wipe the sweat from his mustache, wolf a huge supper, and unroll his blackboard. His afterhours task: teaching basic English to 40 sunburned Galician laborers. "I didn't get very far," recalls Dr. Spock, who has since lost the mustache, become...
...this era of the "roll-of-oilcloth" figure, high fashion decreed bosom-flattening brassi...
...church authorities to urge them to change the commission's verdict. "This is Paul," Vlasblom maintained, "the man directly in the grip of God." But the commission seemed adamant and the huge clay statue, still uncast in concrete, began to deteriorate in its wrapping of old rags and oilcloth. "It can't hold out much longer," said Mrs. Vlasblom sadly. "Soon the fingers will begin falling...
...remove the high polish from cars and furniture, spray with clear liquid wax; to take the glare from mirrors, apply a mixture of epsom salts and stale beer; such shiny surfaces as oilcloth can be toned down with a spray of shaving lotion...