Word: plaster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chopping his swing and neutralizing his power. Hah. It's very depressing. And you have to feel most sorry, ruthless or not, for the handsome black man, perhaps in street clothes, perhaps in a number 14, sitting on a bench with his arm curving into an ugly hunk of plaster, watching while the Red Sox bask in the incredible, exhilarating core of an ocean of energy, the high of a pennant race and maybe more...
...known as a palliative since the dawn of time. Safflower has long been grown for what is now known as "polyunsaturated" oil. Foxglove yields digitalis. Ephedrine, the base of many nasal sprays, is extracted from a desert shrub. Indians in New Mexico still use their traditional backache cure: a plaster of pitch and verbena...
...Harvard gets its way--a towering energy plant that will compete with those of Boston Edison. Moving carefully through the neighborhood. Harvard has bought up large amounts of housing which it then allows to deteriorate and then destroys. Tenants and home-owners give way to broken glass, falling plaster, and soon a "blighted" area. This strategy of premeditated blight is at the moment one of Harvard's major weapons in its fight to take over the Hill for the expansion of its medical territory. In the wake of this destruction Harvard plans three large projects which together represent the third...
...with education, income levels, population density, and so forth-and New Orieans not only came out near the bottom but also, judging from the Harper's critreris, had very litle to recommend itself. Forced to defend the city, I find my mind funning toward gravestones of white flaky plaster covered by intruding vines, but usually I find it hard to tell people about them...
...lives in a building in the French Quarter that everyone calls The Skyscraper because it is four stories tall and when it was built 150 years ago it was the highest building in town. It's now a lowermiddle-class apartment building with rickety wooden stairways and thick plaster walls, reputedly haunted...