Word: plaster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long stretches, Novelist Karmel offers a meticulous description of the intrigue that is almost inevitable among patients who are not acutely ill yet must stay in bed month after month. Stephania's willfulness, her almost ferocious desire to bear the agonies of a plaster cast that may reshape her grotesque body, seem offensive to the other patients. But gradually they gain some of her hunger to become normal again, while she learns to value their simple, unheroic humanity. Under Stephania's prodding, little Thura begins to move her paralyzed fingers, while Fröken Nilsson, outraged at being...
Shortage of office space became an increasingly vexing problem. The Los Angeles business staff moved into a new building only a few hours before plaster in their vacated offices was shaken loose by a mild earthquake. And (as I wrote you three weeks ago) TIME's London staff moved into their new building before the year was over. TIME opened its 14th and 15th overseas bureaus in Madrid and Singapore...
...room directly above. Once during a three-day absence Smith left his radio blaring away and the police were called in. Smith said it was an oversight. For another two years the battle of bedlam went on. Other neighbors began to complain. One threatened to beat up Smith. After plaster-shivering crashes began causing their small daughter to have vomiting fits, the Masons decided to sue for damages...
Ragged Regiment. Because hardly anything symbolic of British royalty is ever thrown away, the effigies of king after king and queen after queen accumulated for centuries in Westminster Abbey. Their paint flaked; their plaster cracked; worms burrowed through their woodwork; the disrespectful boys of nearby Westminster School named them "the ragged regiment." About 50 years ago they got so unroyally grubby that abbey authorities would not permit even antiquarians to see them...
During these attentions, which took two years, Howgrave-Graham watched for royal specimens to send to appropriate laboratories. Samples of hair teased out of the plaster went to Scotland Yard, which certified all except one as human...