Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...City of the Bombed. Looking through glasses, we saw that sheets and drawers and white pieces of cloth were hanging straight down from windows in the face of the cliff. We ventured upward in column, passing along the way a ghostly old woman lying amid crumbling plaster and shattered timber, who stretched out her hands to us, stared out of sightless eyes, and moaned like the wind whining through pine trees...
...loan, if she promised to give it back the moment it was needed? The reply she got from Washington, "apparently written by one of Mr. Nelson's secretaries," counseled patience and looked forward to the postwar world. She wrote again, got more advice. Her young man of plaster (with hands held determinedly behind him), she decided, should be titled: The New Deal...
...suffered a spine injury in an auto accident (1910), lay in a plaster cast for seven months. His first act after being discharged was to rush to his billiard rooms and grab a cue. He was as good as ever-but only for a few minutes at a time. He worked on fancy shots, mastered the mysteries of angles and ballspin, became the game's Fancy Dan, a combination cue-and-ivory Houdini and amiable Billy Sunday, who evangelized for the game...
Rolled Roast. In Great Falls, Mont., the Andrew Cowans prepared to enjoy a 47-ration-point pot roast that Cowan had helped prepare, presently found that even the gravy was tough, at length discovered he had innocently rolled it in plaster of Paris...
...Contaxes"*; a telling snap of three gay and very German prisoners; beautifully crosslit heads and torsos, leaning out of a truck window; a three-picture sequence of helmeted U.S. artillerymen reacting to a close shellburst; a detail study of a Sened building's shell-spattered plaster wall...