Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Apley renovations entailed the application of a fresh coat of paint, the installation of new doorboxes and the replacement of claw-footed bathtubs with new tubs...
...liability than an asset to today's multiracial National Party. Last week he told TIME: "I've always adhered to the management philosophy that a top manager shouldn't be in the job too long." The remark was characteristically De Klerk: low key, declining the chance to paint himself as a large figure in history...
...Five-O in rapture. But then I began to take pleasure from the fact that I was reading David Copperfield while everybody else was taking in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. I found satisfaction in listening to the Mets on the radio instead of watching the telecast, and I could paint my toy soldiers at the same time...
...gets even stranger. Each year a do-it-yourself city appears overnight. On one makeshift street, a three-story tower of scaffolding grows like a high-tech mushroom; draped with a parachute, it becomes an instant cafe. At a table, generous folks with a spare gallon of blue body paint offer to turn you into an alien. Behind them, two guys have built a house out of old wooden doors hauled in on a yellow rental truck. Inside you hear hypnotic techno music. The house will be gone 48 hours later, as will the rest of the instant city...
...rain? You're not alone. Neither can the B-2 Stealth Bomber. The Air force admitted today that the fleet of famously radar-invisible planes ? which cost the taxpayer $1.5 billion a pop ? doesn't like going out when it's wet, because it damages the special radar-absorbing paint. A report from the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, said the coating quickly degrades and loses its "invisibility" when exposed to rain or humidity...