Word: plastered
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...Mood. In Manhattan, cinemaddicts shuddering at Dr. Terror's House of Horrors were not too much surprised when 200 square feet of plaster ceiling ripped loose, crashed on orchestra customers' heads...
...corrective, the physicians put both legs in plaster casts for two weeks, then fitted their patient with seven-pound steel braces from hips to heels. Gentle exercises on a bedboard were begun...
Good Ground. In Burlington, Iowa, a renovated bathroom's walls and ceiling luxuriantly sprouted wheat. The cause: wheat grain had got mixed up in the plaster...
...began to be an artist in Druskiensiki, Lithuania, when he was only eight. His earliest works were carefully painted white in imitation of the plaster casts he saw at school. At 18, Lipchitz hotfooted to Paris, became the youngest member of the Cubist group, quickly developed the muscular, semi-abstract style...
Guatemala. Last fortnight Guatemala's President Juan Jose Arevalo rose from bed in plaster cast and dressing gown (TIME, Dec. 31) to denounce a fellow revolutionary whom he had dismissed from the Finance Ministry for acts jeopardizing the fruits of 1944's revolution...