Word: plaster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wasn't a plaster sort of saint...
...sheriff made plaster casts of the footprints. Holland was arrested at his farm next morning. He denied the killing...
...Root of Evil. Sheriff Meeks had been, as he says, "bird-doggin'" for evidence to back up his charge of murder against Holland. As this week began he was still trying to uncover two important pieces of evidence: the murder gun and shoes that will match the plaster casts. "This scientific investigatin' ain't my dish of tea," he says, "but I got one big advantage. These people around here will talk to me." The sheriff is not as confident about the immediate future of Kanab...
...clear day, the bells could be heard for fifteen miles, and if conditions were exceptionally favorable, the radius of total destruction was reputed to be forty-two. House Master Julian Coolidge, who hardly shared President Lowell's enthusiasm for the bells, once complained that when rung they cracked his plaster...
...Philadelphia, the Art Commission withheld approval of Sculptor Waldemar Raemisch's half-size plaster models of two pieces of sculpture for the city's new detention home for juveniles. Photos of Raemisch's models showed a group of round-faced children gathered around a round-faced mother. Objected one member of the commission: the figures look "pie-faced." Agreed Sculptor Giuseppe Donate: the faces of the children look as if they had "retarded minds." Said Donato: "We have a responsibility to the public to see that they get a first-rate piece of art." The commission asked...