Word: plaster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...notice that the Roman Catholics are at last building churches that are in good taste; far too many of them have exhibited appalling taste in the past, particularly in their church interiors. Old-fashioned parlor frills, shrines and plaster statues with painted faces resembling Kewpie dolls have no place in a tasteful church interior, and reduce it to the level of the 5 & 10? store. Church interiors and altars that reflect peaceful dignity and serene beauty are nearly always found among the Lutheran and Episcopal churches. It looks as though the Roman Catholics have taken a lesson from them...
Having decided that operation was unavoidable, the surgeons prepared for a long, complicated siege. Off came Margie's long, glistening black hair. Her entire torso and part of one thigh, her shaved head and her neck were encased in a monstrous plaster cast known among doctors and nurses as a "turtle." The cast was hinged in the middle. Joining the halves on the left, and spanning the spinal curvature, was a turnbuckle. Every day or two the doctors extended the turnbuckle by a couple of turns. As it was lengthened, it flattened and almost erased the curve. But unaided...
...little Madonna was a poor thing. She was made of plaster, and her face was blank and pink. In the shapeless, pudgy fingers of her right hand she held a bleeding heart limned in red and gold. She was exactly like hundreds of other foot-high, hollow, plaster Madonnas that the Sicilian factory sold for $3, and like many of them she was a wedding present-to Antonietta and Angelo lannuso of Syracuse. Soon after they got the present in the spring of 1953, the commotion began...
Best Foot. In Kansas City, Kans., Tommy Hess, 3, warned of pain by the doctor preparing to put a plaster cast on his broken foot, gingerly extended his leg, never whimpered during the 40-minute operation, only explained when the impressed doctor praised him, "It's the other foot that hurts...
...infants. Consisting of a transparent plastic tube with a plunger on one end that pushes food through to a nipple on the other end. the Infa-Feeder is designed to eliminate the usual messiness associated with infant feeding time. But it will probably not outsmart babies really determined to plaster their faces with food. Price...