Word: paintwork
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...annoyance did not keep him from giving Fielding a full hour's top-to-bottom guided tour of the premises. Trailing along behind the hotelier, Fielding kept up a steady and reassuring patter: "Hmm, new paintwork there, very good . . . Oh, I see you've installed 110 volts A.C.?that's fine"?meanwhile running his hand along the tops of doors to see if they had been dusted. Entering one room, he pointed to the bed, asked "Do you mind?" and flopped onto it, carefully keeping his feet raised to avoid getting black shoe polish on the spread...
...assertiveness in advertising, a rather crude claim to offer what is at once the cheapest and the best. The organization is extrovert, outgoing and inquisitive." Male Superiority. Quite the opposite is j the female corporation. "Its factory buildings are prettily sited and smartly kept with pastel shades in the paintwork and flower beds near the gate. There can be too much fuss over details, an insistence on exact procedure and an overemphasis on the appearance (as opposed to the reality) of competence. In general, the female trend is toward economy and financial caution. Faced with a recession, the female corporation...
...Powerful Paintwork. Russian-born Jules Olitski, 39, studied portrait painting at the National Academy of Design in Manhattan, went to Paris on the G.I. Bill and worked under Ossip Zadkine, now lives in Northport, Long Island. His work has gradually become more and more abstract, but even as he retreats from reality, he manages to put into his canvases the throb of life. His winning work (see color) expresses to him "the intense silence of a kiss," which accounts for its improbable title. It is more successful not as an expression of emotion but as a powerful piece of paintwork...
...plunged into the ship's chapel through a 12-ft. hole in the deck of the grand salon; Actress Dorothy Malone was trapped between sheets of boiler plate in a cabin awash with icy brine. Explosions were set off in the engine room, where a half acre of paintwork unexpectedly ignited and 30-ft. flames threatened all hands...
...ships of the Yangtze Patrol, the hull and superstructure of the Panay was white, the stacks orange. The ships are kept immaculately clean at all times. The paintwork is scrubbed so often the paint never becomes thick enough to require chipping...